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Longitudinal data and mixed-effects models
Measure the same person twice and the rows stop being independent. The model has to say so.
Taught by Michael Crowther, PhD
Self-paced · reading and video
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Introduction to causal inference
What a comparison of treated and untreated people can and cannot say.
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Reproducible documents with Quarto
One source for the analysis, the numbers and the report.
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Flexible parametric survival models
Estimate the shape of the hazard, and report something a patient could use.
Taught by Sara Ekberg, PhD
Self-paced · reading and video
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Competing risks
When more than one thing can happen first, and one of them stops the clock.
Taught by Michael Crowther, PhD
Self-paced · reading and video
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Multi-state models
More than one thing can happen, in more than one order, and people move between states rather than out of one.
Taught by Michael Crowther, PhD
Self-paced · reading and video
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Relative survival and excess hazard models
Measure what a cancer does to a population when nobody can tell you the cause of death.
Taught by Sara Ekberg, PhD and Michael Crowther, PhD
Self-paced · reading and video
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Multilevel and frailty survival models
Patients arrive in clusters and the clusters differ. A survival model that says nothing about that is answering a different question.
Taught by Michael Crowther, PhD
Self-paced · reading and video
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Joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data
A biomarker measured over time and an event it may be warning of, modelled together.
Taught by Michael Crowther, PhD
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Causal inference and survival analysis
Causal questions with time-to-event outcomes: what the hazard ratio is and is not.
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Advanced multi-state modelling
Two clocks at once, everything else a fitted model will answer, and the health-economic value layer — the arithmetic of it, not a course in health technology assessment.
Taught by Michael Crowther, PhD
Self-paced · reading and video
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