Keynote speakers
We are pleased to announce 2 distinguished keynote speakers for this conference. The President’s Invited Speaker will be Per Kragh Andersen (Copenhagen University, DK) and the Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) has invited Geert Molenberghs (KU Leuven University, BE) as Keynote Speaker.Pre-conference courses
The introductory day (Sunday 18) will be dedicated to three full-day courses in biostatistics:- Joint Models under the Bayesian approach by Dimitris Rizopoulos (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL),
- Causal Mediation Analysis by Linda Valeri(Columbia University, US),
- Flexible penalized hazard model for time-to-event data by Mathieu Fauvernier(University of Lyon, FR).
Invited Sessions
The 8 invited sessions retained for 2021, will tackle- Causal inference in continuous time for dense longitudinal data from wearable devices,
- Variance modelling for multilevel data and joint models,
- Modelling the global spread of Covid-19 and impact of interventions,
- Challenges and opportunities for learning from long-term disease registers,
- The best of both worlds: combining deep learning and modelling,
- Selective inference after variable selection,
- Personalised Medicine with Dynamic Predictions,
- Optimal design of longitudinal cluster randomized trials.