UCL Institut de statistique




Journée de Contact FNRS
Groupe Analyse Statistique

-- In Honour of Prof. André Bouckaert --

Statistics in Medicine and in Epidemiology

Friday, March 31, 2000




The Institute of Statistics and the Faculty of Medicine of the UCL announce a one-day conference devoted to Statistics in Medicine and in Epidemiology (with the support of the FNRS) in honour of our colleague André Bouckaert who retired this year.

The objective of this scientific meeting is to set up a forum of discussion between medical doctors and statisticians on problems of common interest with a view to mutual enrichment.

The participation is totally free. For our convenience, we would appreciate if you could fill the enclosed registration form and fax it to +32-10-47.30.32.

This meeting will take place in Louvain-en-Woluwe at « salle Couvreur » (Building 73, Tour Van Helmont, Avenue Emmanuel Mounier, 1200 Bruxelles).
Note that Parking Mounier (entrance at Avenue Mounier) is accessible freely and for an unlimited time by the participants who registered (provided that you leave the parking after 17h00).

 

A preliminary program is given below :


 
9h30 Welcome
10h00-10h40 Hans Van Houwelingen, University of Leiden
Modelling survival data: beyond the Cox model
10h40-11h00 Coffee break
11h00-11h40 Philippe Lambert, Institut de Statistique, UCL
Modelling multivariate non-normal longitudinal data: a case study
11h40-12h20 Emmanuel Lesaffre, Biostatistical Centre, KU Leuven
On the spatial distribution of caries in primary teeth
12h20-14h20 .
14h20-15h00 Richard Sylvester, EORTC, Brussels
Meta-analyses: a useful tool in cancer research
15h00-15h40 Michèle Dramaix, Ecole de santé publique, ULB
Strategies for statistical analysis in epidemiology
15h40-16h40 Bernard Grenier, Université de Tours
Why and how must we justify our medical decisions
16h40 Academic session
17h00 Drink

For more details, please contact either Michel Mouchart (Phone +32-10-47.43.18, Email mouchart@stat.ucl.ac.be) or Philippe Lambert (Phone +32-10-47.28.01, Email lambert@stat.ucl.ac.be).

Organising Committee:
Faculty of Medicine: Jacques Melin, Annie Robert and René Tonglet.
Institute of Statistics: Philippe Lambert, Michel Mouchart (President) and José Paris.