December 17-18, 2015

Hotel Ibis Styles Meeting Center Louvain-la-Neuve 
Boulevard de Lauzelle, 61
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve / Belgium 
 

Pictures of the event

Presentations

 

Speakers

Keynote speakers:

• Per Kragh Andersen
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen.
• Gerda Claeskens
  Operations Research and Business Statistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
• Emmanuel Lesaffre
  Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
• Yi Li
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.
• Thomas Scheike
  Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen.
• Hans C. van Houwelingen
  Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center.
• Lan Wang
  School of Statistics, University of Minnesota.

Invited speakers:

• Mailis Amico
  Institut de statistique, biostatistique et sciences actuarielles, Université catholique de Louvain.
• Liesbeth de Wreede
  Leiden University Medical Center.
• Candida Geerdens
  Centre for Statistics, Universiteit Hasselt.
• Olivier Lopez
  Laboratoire de statistique théorique et appliquée, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
• Valentin Patilea
  ENSAI, Campus de Ker-Lann.
• Francois Portier
  Institut de statistique, biostatistique et sciences actuarielles, Université catholique de Louvain.
• Sylvie Scolas
  Institut de statistique, biostatistique et sciences actuarielles, Université catholique de Louvain.

    

 

Programme

 

Thursday 17/12

08:30 - 09:30 : Welcome coffee
09:30 - 09:40 : Introduction
09:40 - 10:30 : Y. Li, "Modeling Complex Large-scale Time-to-event Data: An Efficient Quasi-Newton Approach"
10:30 - 11:00 : M. Amico, "Estimation of a mixture cure model with a single-index structure"
11:00 - 11:30 : coffee break
11:30 - 12:20 : H.C. van Houwelingen, "Reduced-rank modeling as an approach to reduce complexity in event history analysis"
12:20 - 12:50 : poster storm

12:50 - 14:10 : lunch

14:10 - 14:40 : V. Patilea, "Modified Cox regression with right censored and current status data"
14:40 - 15:30 : L. Wang, "A Unified Approach of Quantile Regression Analysis of Survival Data under Biased Sampling"
15:30 - 16:00 : coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 : S. Scolas, "Diagnostic checks in the presence of interval-censoring and cure"
16:30 - 17:20 : T. Scheike, "Modelling the dependence in time to event data"

17:20 - 18:30 : Drink
18:30 : Diner

Friday 18/12

08:30 - 09:30 : Welcome coffee
09:30 - 10:00 : C. Geerdens, "Nonparametric copula estimation for clustered right-censored event time data"
10:00 - 10:50 : E. Lesaffre, "A stochastic EM algorithm for Doubly Interval Censored Data"
10:50 - 11:20 : coffee break
11:20 - 12:10 : G. Claeskens, "Variable selection methods for survival data"
12:10 - 12:40 : O. Lopez, "Censored regression trees with applications to nonlife insurance"

12:40 - 14:00 : lunch

14:00 - 14:30 : F. Portier, "On proportional hazards cure models"
14:30 - 15:00 : L. de Wreede, "Prediction in multi-state models when data are missing"
15:00 - 15:50 : P.K. Andersen, "Measures of lost years of life"

15:50 : Closing coffee
    

ABSTRACTS

  

Scientific/Organizing committee

• Anouar El Ghouch (UCL)
• Cédric Heuchenne (ULg/UCL)
• Philippe Lambert (ULg/UCL)
• Catherine Legrand (UCL)
• Ingrid Van Keilegom (UCL) 
    

Registration

We thank you in advance for participating in our conference and kindly ask to register ONLINE
Registration deadline: November 15, 2015.
  

Poster session

You can submit an abstract to participate to the poster session.
All abstracts must be submitted by e-mail to tatiana.regout@uclouvain.be in PDF format by October 31, 2015.
Authors will be notified by e-mail no later than 5th November, 2015.
The poster needs to be in A0 format, in vertical orientation
   

 

Accommodation

 

The conference venue and the hotel are at the same location :

Hotel Ibis Styles Meeting Center Louvain-la-Neuve
Boulevard de Lauzelle, 61
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve / Belgium

How to get to Louvain-la-Neuve ?
Map of Louvain-la-Neuve here
   

Organized by

This conference is organized in the framework of the ARC research project “Semiparametric inference for survival and cure models” of UCL.
   

Contact

For any questions: tatiana.regout@uclouvain.be