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Session Overview
Location: ETH E23
D-BSSE, ETH, 84 seats
Date: Monday, 25/Aug/2025
11:30am
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1:00pm
Survival analysis 1
Location: ETH E23
 

Standardized Survival Probabilities and Contrasts Between Hierarchical Units in Multilevel Survival Models

Alessandro Gasparini, Michael J. Crowther, Justin M. Schaffer



Multimodal mixture regression on censored data with a cure fraction.

Mathilde Foulon, Anouar El Ghouch, Catherine Legrand



Modelling & Assessing the Effect of Frailty and Longitudinal Measures in Time-to-Event Outcome: An application to Colorectal Cancers

Anand Hari, Jagathnath Krishna KM



Adjusted Kaplan-Meier curves for partly unobserved group membership in paediatric stem cell transplantation studies

Martina Mittlböck, Harald Heinzl, Ulrike Pötschger



Extended multi-stage drop-the-losers design for multi-arm clinical trials using binary and survival endpoints

Manuel Pfister, Pierre Colin

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Prediction / prognostic modelling 2
Location: ETH E23
 

Assessing time-dependent discrimination of prognostic model with intercurrent treatment: use of multi-state modelling for inverse probability censoring weighting

Loïc Vasseur, Derek Hazard, Nicolas Boissel, Martin Wolkewitz, Jérôme Lambert



Evaluating the discrimination of prediction models for recurrent medical events

Thomas Joel Spain, Alexandra Hunt, Hein Putter, Victoria Watson, Laura Bonnett



A Novel Dynamic Prediction Model Based on Interpretable Deep Learning Using Restricted Mean Survival Time

Pansheng Xue, Zheng Chen



Correcting for differential diagnosis bias across protected attributes in clinical prediction models using cancer stage information and causal inference

Jose Benitez-Aurioles, Ricardo Silva, Matthew Sperrin

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Multi-omics data integration
Location: ETH E23
 

Unsupervised Factor-Based Methods for Multi-Omics Data Integration

Bernard Isekah Osang’ir, Jürgen Claesen, Ziv Shkedy, Surya Gupta



Multi-modal integration reveals the joint role of electrocardiogram, imaging and genetics in cardiovascular risk

Andrea Mario Vergani, Francesca Ieva, Marco Masseroli, Emanuele Di Angelantonio



Analyzing Protein Folding Dynamics Using Multi-Dimensional Varying Coefficient Models

Jürgen Claesen



X-Med: Cross-modal integration for sequential intelligence in aftercare of kidney transplant recipients

Aditya Kumar, Simon Rauch, Mario Cypko, Oliver Amft



Modeling Interdependencies in Multiomic Spatial Analysis

Giulia Capitoli, Vanna Denti, Veronica Vinciotti, Ernst Wit

Date: Tuesday, 26/Aug/2025
9:15am
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10:45am
Meta science 1
Location: ETH E23
 

Quantifying the variation in effects due to multiplicity of analysis strategies – A conceptional perspective

Susanne Strohmaier, S.Necdet Cervirme, Georg Heinze, Michael Kammer, Moritz Pamminger, Daniela Dunkler



Uncertainty in individual predictions: sample size versus model and modeler choices

Toby Hackmann, Ben van Calster, Liesbeth C de Wreede, Ewout W Steyerberg



Quantifying reproducibility - Results from a scoping review on reproducibility metrics and simulation studies into their real-world applicability

Rachel Heyard, Samuel Pawel, Joris Frese, Bernhard Voelkl, Hanno Würbel, Sarah K McCann, Kimberley E Wever, Helena Hartmann, Louise Townsin, Stephanie Zellers, Leonhard Held



Data quality, a blind spot in study and reporting guidelines

Carsten Oliver Schmidt



To adjust or not: it is not the tests performed that count but how they are reported and interpreted

Sabine Hoffmann, Simon Lemster, Juliane Wilcke, Anne-Laure Boulesteix

11:30am
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1:00pm
Meta science 2
Location: ETH E23
 

Developing communication skills in biostatistical consulting and collaboration

Karen Lamb, Sabine Braat, Julie Simpson



Are we “Essential” or “Not Needed”? Varying perceptions of statisticians' value, a national study of human research ethics committees

Adrian Barnett, Nicole White, Taya A Collyer



An Empirical Assessment of the Cost of Dichotomization

Erik van Zwet, Frank Harrell, Stephen Senn



Reporting Completeness in Conventional and Machine Learning-Based COVID-19 Prognostic Models: A Meta-Epidemiological Study

Ioannis Partheniadis, Persefoni Talimtzi, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Anna Haidich



How to improve data quality reporting: a real-world data example using registry data

Elena Salogni, Thomas J. Musholt, Elisa Kasbohm, Stephan Struckmann, Carsten Oliver Schmidt

Date: Wednesday, 27/Aug/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
Infectious disease and longitudinal modelling
Location: ETH E23
 

Estimating transmission parameters of stochastic epidemic models using survival analysis techniques

Hein Putter, Chengyuan Lu, Jacco Wallinga



Estimating Mean Viral Load Trajectory at the Beginning of a pandemic

Yonatan Woodbridge, Micha Mandel, Yair Goldberg, Amit Huppert



Investigating the Association between Risky Sexual Behaviors and HIV Risk Using Multivariate Joint Models

Nobuhle Nokubonga Mchunu, Henry Mwambi, Tarylee Reddy, Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma, Dimitris Rizopoulos



Revealing Platelet Aggregation Dynamics: A Functional Data Analysis Approach Using Penalized Splines and Linear Mixed Models.

Souvik Kumar Bandyopadhyay



Source Data Mapping Approach to CDMV5.4: Innovations in Longitudinal Data Integration for Machine Learning Application

Bylhah Mugotitsa, Michael Ochola, Pauline Andeso, David Amadi, Reinpeter Momanyi, Evans Omondi, Jim Todd, Agnes Kiragga

2:00pm
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3:30pm
Missing data and imputation
Location: ETH E23
 

Missing value imputation methods in prediction model development: a neutral comparison of approaches

Manja Deforth, Georg Heinze, Ulrike Held



Assessing the Impact of Percentage of Missing Data and Imputation Methods on Youden Index Estimation

Sergio Sabroso-Lasa, Luis Mariano Esteban, Tomás Alcalá-Nalvaiz, Núria Malats



Recorded Reasons of Missingness-Informed Sensitivity Analyses in Clinical Trials

Dries Reynders, Jammbe Musoro, Saskia le Cessie, Els Goetghebeur



Adjusting for outcome reporting bias in meta-analysis: a multiple imputation approach

Cora Burgwinkel, Leonhard Held



Comparing Estimation Methods for Expected Quality of Life and Predicted Patient-Specific Trajectories in oncology: Addressing missingness/death (not) at random

Eline Vanderpijpen, Els Goetghebeur

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Meta-analysis 3
Location: ETH E23
 

Meta-Analysis of Time-to-Event Outcomes with Non-Proportional Hazards - A Time-Varying Hazard Ratio Approach

Keith R Abrams, Rhiannon K Owen



Flexing the Curve: Comparing Spline and Fractional Polynomial Models in Network Meta-Analysis of Survival Outcomes

Suraj Balakrishna, Justin Chumbley, Natalia Popova, Shahrul Mt-Isa



Fixed and random effect meta-analysis for competing risks: a how-to guide for aggregated and individual participant data

Matthias Klimek, Matthias Schmid, Anja Rüten-Budde, Andreas Ziegler



The transmission blocking activity of artemisinin-combination, non-artemisinin, and 8-aminoquinoline antimalarial therapies: a network meta-analysis.

Jordache Ramjith, Leen N. Vanheer, Almahamoudou Mahamar, Merel J. Smit, Kjerstin Lanke, Michelle E. Roh, Koualy Sanogo, Youssouf Sinaba, Sidi M. Niambele, Makonon Diallo, Seydina O. Maguiraga, Sekouba Keita, Siaka Samake, Ahamadou Youssouf, Halimatou Diawara, Sekou F. Traore, Roly Gosling, Joelle M. Brown, Chris Drakeley, Alassane Dicko, Will Stone, Teun Bousema



Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy with multiple disease states: combining stage-specific accuracy data with descriptive statistics

Efthymia Derezea, Gabriel Rogers, Nicky Welton, Hayley E Jones


 
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