Workshop programme

09:30 – 10:00 Arrival and Refreshments
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome John Whittaker, MRC Biostatistics Unit
10:10 – 10:20 Opening Remarks Jessica Barrett, MRC Biostatistics Unit
10:20 – 11:00 From Noise to Nuance: Modeling Residual Variance with Dynamic and Mixed Effects Location Scale Models Philippe Rast, University of California, Davis
11:00 – 11:20 Modelling biomarker variability in joint analysis of longitudinal and time-to-event data Jianxin Pan, BNU-HKBU United International College, China
11:20 – 11:45 Refreshments Break
11:45 – 12:05 A flexible location-scale joint model for a longitudinal marker and competing events Hélène Jacqmin-Gadda, Inserm Centre Bordeaux Population Health
12:05 – 12:25 Flexible joint models for multivariate longitudinal and time-to-event data using multivariate functional principal components Sonja Greven, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
12:25 – 12:45 A Bayesian joint location-scale model for time-to-event and multivariate longitudinal data with association based on within-individual variability Marco Palma, MRC Biostatistics Unit
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:05 Wavelet-mixed landmark survival models for the effect of short-term changes of potassium in heart failure patients Caterina Gregorio, Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet
14:05 – 14:25 Variability of ageing and the definition of ‘biological age’ David Steinsaltz, University of Oxford
14:25 – 15:05 Pleasure and Satisfaction as Predictors of Future Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use: A Novel Two-Stage Modeling Approach Donald Hedeker, The University of Chicago Biological Sciences
15:05 – 15:30 Refreshments Break
15:30 – 15:50 Modelling risk factors for within-individual variability: a mixed-effects beta-binomial model applied to cognitive function in older people in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Richard Parker, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
15:50 – 16:10 Using within-individual variability in Mendelian Randomization Janne Pott, MRC Biostatistics Unit
16:10 – 16:55 Discussion
16:55 – 17:00 Closing Remarks Jessica Barrett, MRC Biostatistics Unit