International Seminar
on Multi-State Models
Vigo, May 18th 2005
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Universidad de Vigo
Campus Universitario Lagoas-Marcosende
36310 Vigo – Spain
Local Organizer:
Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez
Departamento de Estadística e Investigación
Operativa
Universidad de Vigo
jacobo@uvigo.es
Scientific Committee:
Jacobo
de Uña-Álvarez (Universidad de Vigo)
Carmen
María Cadarso Suárez
(Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Supported by: Research Comission, Universidad
de Vigo
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Goals
Multi-state models are the most commonly
used models for describing the development for longitudinal data. In
medicine, the states describe conditions like healthy, diseased, diseased
with complications, and death. In econometric literature on unemployment
lengths, multi-state models arise when considering the state biography,
or multiple destinations such as "recall to an old job" or "finding a new
job". In sum, multi-state models are useful for modelling multivariate
and multiple survival data.
This international seminar brings the opportunity of attending
to several talks on special topics of much interest, in the field of
multi-state models. The invited speakers are leading researchers on
this area and related ones, with much experience on both theoretical
and applied research. We hope that this seminar will serve to promote
multi-state modelling among local researchers, and to confront different
approaches in modelling and inference from multivariate survival data.
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Program
10:00 Opening Ceremony
Welcome by the Vice-Rector of Institutional Relations, the Dean of the
Faculty of Economics and Business, and the Chair of the Department of Statistics
and Operations Research (University of Vigo)
10:30 – 11:30
Daniel Commenges (Institut of Public Health, Epidemiology and Development
ISPED - Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2)
“The dementia-institution-death
model: multistate and counting processes points of view”
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00
Luis F. Meira-Machado (Department of Mathematics for
Science and Technology, Universidade do Minho)
“Nonparametric
estimation of transition probabilities in a non-markov illness-death
model”
13:00 – 14:00
Per K. Andersen
(Department of Biostatistics – Institute of Public Health, University
of Copenhagen)
“Intensity-based
models and marginal models for multi-state analysis based on counting
processes”
14:00 – 16:00 Lunch time
16:00 – 17:00
Philip
Hougaard (Biostatistics Department, International Clinical Research,
H. Lundbeck A/S)
“A comparison
of frailty and multi-state models: theory and practice”
17:00 – 17:30 Rejoinder
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Participants
Carmen Cadarso Suárez (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Jacobo de Uña Álvarez (Universidad de Vigo)
Luis F. Meira Machado (Universidade do Minho)
Per K. Andersen (University of Copenhagen)
Philip Hourgaard (H. Lundbeck A/S - University of Southern Denmark)
Daniel Commenges (Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2)
Alberto Rodríguez Casal (Universidad de Vigo)
Guadalupe Gómez Melis (Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya)
Alejandro Pedromingo Marino (GlaxoSmithKline, Dpto. Biometría, Madrid)
M. Carmen Iglesias Pérez (Universidad de Vigo)
Jorge M. Pires Mendonca (Instituto Politécnico do Porto)
Anna Espinal (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
Juan Carlos Pardo Fernández (Universidad de Vigo)
Daniel Táboas Rodríguez (Universidad de Vigo)
Ana Paula Costa da Conceicao Amorim (Universidade do Minho)
Jaime Huertas (Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya)
M Teresa Seoane Pillado (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Mónica López Ratón (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Amalia Jácome (Universidad de Vigo)
César Sánchez Sellero (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
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Important remark: Limited audience, due to restrictions
of space at the seminar room. E-mail pre-registration required (no
registration fee). To this end, send an e-mail to jacobo@uvigo.es including
name and affiliation.
Deadline: April 29th
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