Modern demographic methods in epidemiology

• Lectures and computer practicals:
  Bendix Carstensen
  Senior Statistician, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
  & Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Previous and future courses:
  • Baker HDI, Melbourne, 22-23 February 2023
  • Aalborg University, 7-8 March 2022
  • Steno Diabetes Center Greenland, 1-3 March 2022
  • Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, 5-6 October 2021
  • Aberdeen, Scotland, 19 August 2017
  • Freiburg (FRIAS), Germany, 21 September 2016
  • Melbourne, Australia, 23 November 2015
  • Edinburgh, 26-29 August 2014.
  • IBC, Firenze, 6 July 2014.
  • St.Andrews, 1-3 June 2010.
• Talks
• Useful examples
  • Programs illustrating of the equality of the Cox-model and the Poisson model
  • Example uses of Lexis for multistate analyses
• Useful papers:
  • Fundamental relations in follow-up studies
  • Who needs the Cox model anyway? with corresponding R code
    - and an old preprint version.
  • Lexis: An R Class for Epidemiological Studies with Long-term Follow-up.
  • Using Lexis Objects for Multi-state Models in R.
  • Multistate models in Epi: The DLI example from JSS: the etm package by Allignol et al..
    The corresponding R-code.
  • Rates and (competing) risks: Example calculations using Danish cause of death data.
  • Andersen et al.: Competing risks as a multi-state model.
  • Andersen et al.: Competing risks in epidemiology: possibilities and pitfalls.
  • Andersen & Keiding: Interpretability and importance of functionals in competing risks and multistate models.
  • Iacobelli & Carstensen: Multiple timescales in multi-state models
• Mailing list:
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