Afternoon Workshop on Inference methods for Big Data in healthcare

Wednesday 4^th December 2013, 13.30-17.30 at the University of Leeds in Roger Stevens LT 16

13.00-13.30 Tea/Coffee (Level 9 foyer of the School of Mathematics)

13.30-14.10 What is Big Data, what challenges does it raise & how to solve them? [Presentation]

Andy Sutherland (Health and Social Care Information Centre, Leeds)

14.10-15.00 Study designs for causal inference: their pros and cons [Presentation]

Lucie Baird (Service de Biostatistique et d'Information Médicale, Paris)

15.00-15.30 Tea/Coffee (Level 9 foyer of the School of Mathematics)

15.30-16.10 Modelling causality in observational big data: appropriate and inappropriate adjustment for confounding [Presentation]

Mark Gilthorpe (Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds)

16.10-16.50 Developing useful prediction tools: model calibration and discrimination [Presentation]

Jeremy Wyatt (Yorkshire Centre for Health Informatics, University of Leeds)

16.50-17.30 Panel discussion [Presentation]

Chaired by Peter Thwaites (Department of Statistics, University of Leeds)