Short Courses and Study Days
Short courses
Geert Verbeke and Geert Molenberghs edited and authored four books on the use of linear mixed models for the analysis of longitudinal data (Springer Lecture Notes 1997; Springer Series in Statistics 2000 and 2005; Chapman/Hall 2009, jointly with Garrett Fitzmaurice and Marie Davidian). They have jointly taught a large number of short courses for academia, industry, the regulatory authorities, and at scientific meetings:
- Universities
- Leuven, Hasselt, Gent, and Brussels (Belgium); Barcelona, Pamplona, and Santiago de Compostella (Spain), Leiden (The Netherlands); Hannover and Heidelberg (Germany); Cordoba (Argentina); Copenhagen (Denmark); Agricultural University of Piracicaba (Brazil)
- Meeting of societies
- Belgian Statistical Society; Irish Statistical Society; Statistical Society of Finland; Danish statistical societey; French Statistical Society
- Scientific Meetings
- IBC2002 in Freiburg; IBC2004 in Cairns; Joint Statistical Meetings 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008; EMR2003 Region of the IBS; ENAR 2003, 2006; ISCB ; LearnStat in Washington DC; IBS SUSAN Network Meeting; CLATSE meeting (Uruguay) ; Biostatistical Days in 2000 (Australia)
- regulatory authorities and goverment institutes
- FDA; CDC; RIVM-the Dutch Institute of Epidemiology and the Environment;
- Industrie
- Pfizer, Forest Reserach, Organon, UCB
Other courses can be organized as well. Please contact Prof. Verbeke for more details.
Past courses and study days with guest speakers
L-Biostat has organised several courses and study days in the past. A selection can be found below:
- May 23, 2008, 3rd Leuven Statistical Day
- May 25, 2007. 2nd Leuven Statistical Day
- Seminars in Epidemiology 2006-2007
- Recent Developments in the Analysis of Repeated Measurements Studies in the Presence of Missing Data. Leuven, Belgium, 19 May 2006.
- Seminars in Epidemiology 2005-2006
- Interval censoring with medical applications (with support of the I.A.P. program). Leuven, Belgium, November 15-17, 2005.
- Seminars in Epidemiology 2004-2005
- On modelling multivariate count data, Leuven, Belgium, April 14, 2005. By Dr. Dimitris Karlis, Athens University, Greece. Abstract
- Frailty models (with support of the I.A.P. program), Leuven, Belgium, November 30, 2004
- Seminars in Epidemiology 2003-2004
- Measurement error in epidemiologic studies. Leuven, Belgium. November 17-18, 2003. By Helmut Kuechenhoff, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
- Advanced use of MCMC methods. Leuven, Belgium, September 25-26, 2003. By Petros Dellaportas, University of Athens, Greece.
- MPHR2000 : Spatial Epidemiology. Leuven, Belgium, November 24, 2000.
- Course on 'Interim Analyses in Clinical Trials'. Leuven, Belgium, May 8-9, 2000.
- Workshop on 'Sensitivity Analyses for Dropout Models'. Leuven, Belgium, February 18, 2000.
- Course on 'Bayes and Empirical Bayes methods for data analysis'. Leuven, Belgium, December 9-11, 1998.
- Course on 'Repeated Categorical Data analysis. Part 2 : Mixed models'. Leuven, Belgium, September 28-29, 1998.
- Course on 'Survival analysis', Leuven, Belgium, March 17-19, 1997.
- Course on 'Graphical models, with applications to the medical, social and economic sciences'. Leuven, Belgium, December 9-11, 1996.
- Course on 'Cross-over Trials'. Leuven, Belgium, September 24-26, 1996.
- Course on 'Finite mixture models and their applications, including disease mapping and meta-analysis'. Leuven, Belgium, December 11-13, 1995.
- Course on 'GLIM4'. Leuven, Belgium, November 14-16, 1994.
