Teaching plan

Teaching facilities:

The course takes place in Domus Medica (DM) at the University of Oslo

Teachers:

Hein Stigum, senior researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Harald Weedon-Fekj?r, postdoc, Cancer Registry of Norway.

Jon Michael Gran, postdoc, Department of Biostatistics, IMB, UiO

Bjarte Aagnes, Advisor (Data manager), Cancer Registry of Norway.

Odd O. Aalen, professor, Department of Biostatistics, IMB, UiO (Course leader).

Tron Anders Moger, associate professor, Institute of Health Management and Health Economics and Department of Biostatistics, IMB, UiO

Monday October 17:

08.30-09.00: Registration (outside Lille Auditorium, DM)

Location: GA01 1128 Seminarrom, DM

09.00-09.15: Introduction. (Gran)

09.15-12.00: Introduction to survival analysis. (Gran)

12.00-12.45: Lunch break

Location: GA01 0183 PC-stue uetg. DM

12.45-15.45: Introduction to Stata. (Stigum)

Tuesday October 18:

Location: GA01 1128 Seminarrom, DM

08.30-10.00: Analyzing proportions from follow-up and case-control studies. (Moger)

Location: GA01 0183 PC-stue uetg. DM

10.15-11.00: Exercises in Stata (Moger)

Location: GA01 2031 Lille auditorium, DM

11.15-12.00: Logistic regression (Moger)

12.00-12.45: Lunch break

12.45-13.30: Logistic regression (Moger)

Location: GA01 0183 PC-stue uetg. DM

13.45-14.45: Exercises in Stata (Moger)

Location: GA01 2031 Lille auditorium, DM

15.00-15.45: Discussion of exercises. (Moger)

Wednesday October 19:

Location: GA01 2031 Lille auditorium, DM

08.30-10.45: Introduction to rates and incidence, with illustrations from cancer (Weedon-Fekjaer)

11.00-12.00: Cox regression (Aalen)

12.00-12.45: Lunch break

13.15-14.30: Cox regression cont. (Aalen)

14.45-15.15: Survival analysis in Stata (Aagnes)

15.20-15.45: Survival analysis in Stata cont. (Aalen)

Thursday October 20:

Location: GA01 0183 PC-stue uetg. DM

08.30-09.30: Exercises in Stata: Analysis of incidence rates (Weedon-Fekjaer)

Location: GA01 2015 Nye auditorium 13, DM

09.45-10.15: Discussion of exercises. (Weedon-Fekjaer)

Location: GA01 0183 PC-stue uetg. DM

10.30-12.00: Exercises in Stata: Survival analysis and Cox regression (Aagnes, Aalen)

12.00-12.45: Lunch break

Location: GA01 2015 Nye auditorium 13, DM

12.45-13.15: Discussion of exercises. (Aagnes, Aalen)

13.15-14.45: Further aspects of survival and event history analysis. Causal modeling. (Aalen)

Location: GA01 1128 Seminarrom, DM

15.00-15.30: Brief overview of themes in the course. Closure. (Aalen)

Course exam:

A take home exam will be handed out at the end of the course. This should be solved at home and then returned within a specified deadline.