webinars

Recent Advances in COVID-19 modelling

2021-02-04

YoungStatS project of Young Statisticians Europe, FENStatS, proudly announces our first One World YoungStatS webinar. With four young scholars, we will discuss Recent Advances in the Modelling of COVID-19, presenting novel statistical models, interesting advancements and applications of mechanistic…

R package

Making an Online Risk Calculator

Michael W. Kattan and Thomas A. Gerds / 2020-11-11

We first started making risk calculators with the website, http://nomograms.org. There are several here, and they are patient friendly. Later, we launched rcalc.ccf.org, which has many more risk calculators, although the intended audience is the clinician. It is considerably more expensive and…

statistics

A Tale of Two Parasites...one statistician's career journey

Peter J. Diggle, Emanuele Giorgi, Julienne Atsame, Sylvie Ntsame Ella, Kisito Ogoussan, and Katherine Gass / 2020-10-05

Vector-borne diseases have long presented major challenges to the health of rural communities in the wet tropical regions of the world, but especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we describe the contribution that statistical modelling has made to the global elimination programme for one…

biostatistics

A New Approach to Treatment Selection to Benefit Patient Outcomes in Clinical Trials

Pavel Mozgunov and Thomas Jaki / 2020-10-04

The question of selecting the “best” amongst different choices is a common problem in our lives. In clinical trials, our main field research, the question usually translates to “Out of a number of alternative treatments, which one treats the patients best?”. A traditional…

covid-19

Modeling COVID-19 pandemic using Bayesian analysis with application to Slovene data

Damjan Manevski, Nina Ružić Gorenjec, Nataša Kejžar, Rok Blagus and Maja Pohar Perme / 2020-10-01

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world at the beginning of 2020, statistically modeling its development became of big interest. The main focus of this work was to analyze the spread of the disease and its main characteristics for Slovenia using publicly available COVID-19 data. Our work…