Rates, survival, cumulative risks and multistate models with R and Epi::Lexis

Wednesday 22 & Thursday 23 February 2023, 10 am - 4 pm

taught by
Bendix Carstensen (lectures & practicals)

• Venue: Alfred centre, 4th floor, Latrobe University Tutorial room 5
• Time: Wednesday 22 & Thursday 23 February 2023, 10 am - 4 pm
• Price: 0 AUD
• Registration is here (a max of 22 participants due to room constraints).
• Program for the course
• Computing requirements:
  • A couple of sheets of blank paper and a pencil (fountain pen if available)
  • A computer with an installation of the latest R -version (4.2.2)
  • with the latest versions of the Epi package (2.47)
  • the popEpi package (0.4.10).
• Practicals with solutions. Includes the course program.
  The course is built around the practicals document.
• R code for all practicals.
• Very preliminary slides --- handouts as 1-ups or 3-ups or 10-ups.
• Related to the course topics:
  • Overview of basic concepts in survival analysis. A compressed overview of essential quantities and their interrelations.
  • Epi package website. Links to vignettes from the package and notes on survival and multistate modeling.
  • Epidemiology with R book website. Some of the course topics are covered in the book, but far from all. Lots of material in the book is not covered in this course. Bendix is the autor of the book, so this is purely a commercial.
  • Modern demographic methods in epidemiology website with links to earlier courses of similar content, with links to papers of relevance. Some really outdated, though.
  • Practical Multistate Modeling with R and Epi::Lexis A draft book manuscript. This is work in progress, so prone to change at unexpected times. Nevertheless, any comments and suggestions are welcome.
  • Links to Bendix's published work using multistate models is here.