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Session Overview
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Ground floor Uniclub Bonn
Date: Wednesday, 19/Mar/2025
9:00am
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9:15am
Welcome
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Alina Schenk
Chair: Matthias Schmid
9:15am
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10:15am
Epidemiology
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Benjamin Aretz
 
9:15am - 9:35am

Risk Prediction using Case-Cohort Samples: A Scoping Review and Empirical Comparison

Yangfan Li, Ruth Keogh, Christiana Kartsonaki



9:35am - 9:55am

Implication of the choice of time scales in survival analysis

Judith Vilsmeier, Gisela Büchele, Martin Rehm, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Jan Beyersmann



9:55am - 10:15am

Leveraging Cancer Incidence for Lead Time Estimation in Cancer Screening Programmes

Bor Vratanar, Maja Pohar Perme

10:35am
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11:35am
Dynamic prediction models
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Anders Munch
 
10:35am - 10:55am

Capturing subgroup-specific time-variation in covariate effects in Cox-type hazard regression models

Niklas Hagemann, Thomas Kneib, Kathrin Möllenhoff



10:55am - 11:15am

Dynamic Prediction of Survival Benefit to Inform Liver Transplant Decisions in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Pedro Miranda Afonso, Hau Liu, Michele Molinari, Dimitris Rizopoulos



11:15am - 11:35am

Dynamic prediction with numerous longitudinal predictors: how to combine the best of both worlds (landmarking and joint modelling) through penalized regression calibration

Mirko Signorelli

11:45am
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12:45pm
Keynote I: Morten Overgaard
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Alina Schenk
 
11:45am - 12:45pm

Regression analysis with jack-knife pseudo-observations

Morten Overgaard

1:45pm
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2:25pm
Pseudo-observations
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Alina Schenk
 
1:45pm - 2:05pm

Bootstrap-based inference for Pseudo-value regression models

Simon Mack, Dennis Dobler, Morten Overgaard



2:05pm - 2:25pm

Implications of Pseudo-Observations in Prognostic Modelling: Addressing Left Truncation.

Nickson Murunga, Sarah Booth, Mark Rutherford

Date: Thursday, 20/Mar/2025
8:30am
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9:50am
High-dimensional survival analysis and machine learning
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Thomas Welchowski
 
8:30am - 8:50am

Estimation and variables selection in a joint model of survival times and longitudinal data with random effects

Antoine Caillebotte, Estelle Kuhn, Sarah Lemler



8:50am - 9:10am

Sign-flip test for coefficients in the Cox regression model

Riccardo De Santis, Jelle J. Goeman, Hein Putter, Livio Finos



9:10am - 9:30am

Targeted learning with right-censored data using the state learner

Anders Munch, Thomas Gerds



9:30am - 9:50am

Deep Learning for Survival Analysis: A Review

Simon Wiegrebe

10:15am
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11:35am
Cure models
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Marta Cipriani
 
10:15am - 10:35am

Copula based dependent censoring in cure models with covariates

Morine Delhelle, Anouar El Ghouch, Ingrid Van Keilegom



10:35am - 10:55am

Testing the effect of multiple covariates on cure rates in mixture cure models based on distance correlation

Blanca E. Monroy-Castillo, Amalia Jácome, Ricardo Cao



10:55am - 11:15am

The sicure R package: single-index mixture cure models

Beatriz Piñeiro-Lamas, Ana López-Cheda, Ricardo Cao



11:15am - 11:35am

Testing for sufficient follow-up in survival data with covariates

Eni Musta, Ingrid van Keilegom, Tsz Pang Yuen

11:45am
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12:45pm
Keynote II: Nan van Geloven
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Matthias Schmid
 
11:45am - 12:45pm

Causal prediction of time-to-event outcomes

Nan van Geloven

1:45pm
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3:05pm
Causality
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Yujun Xu
 
1:45pm - 2:05pm

Robust estimation of occupation probabilities of latent multi-state processes

Niklas Maltzahn, Gergely Daniel Lukats, Kjetil Røysland



2:05pm - 2:25pm

Interventional dynamic updating of prognostic survival models in a pandemic environment

Ilaria Prosepe, Anna Kaal, Claudine Stark, Jim Smit, Emiel Leegwater, Cees van Nieuwkoop, Sesmu Arbous, Nan van Geloven



2:25pm - 2:45pm

Surviving your PhD: an analysis of time to completion data

Alice Marion Richardson



2:45pm - 3:05pm

A "what if" - interpretation of the Kaplan-Meier estimator and, in general, no such interpretation for competing risks

Sandra Schmeller, Daniel Fuerst, Jan Beyersmann

3:05pm
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3:35pm
Coffee Break
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
3:35pm
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4:55pm
Pharmaceutical statistics and clinical trials
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Sam Doerken
 
3:35pm - 3:55pm

A non-parametric proportional risk model to assess a treatment effect in an application to randomized controlled trials

Lucia Ameis, Oliver Kuß, Annika Hoyer, Kathrin Möllenhoff



3:55pm - 4:15pm

Exhausting the type I error level in a group-sequential design with a closed testing procedure for progression-free and overall survival

Moritz Fabian Danzer, Kaspar Rufibach, Jan Beyersmann, Rene Schmidt



4:15pm - 4:35pm

Sample size calculation based on differences of quantiles from right-censored data

Beatriz Farah, Aurélien Latouche, Olivier Bouaziz, Xavier Paoletti



4:35pm - 4:55pm

One-sample survival tests for non-proportional hazards in oncology clinical trials: a simulation study

Chloé Szurewsky, Guosheng Yin, Gwénaël Le Teuff

Date: Friday, 21/Mar/2025
8:30am
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9:50am
Parametric regression models
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: David Köhler
 
8:30am - 8:50am

A “Double Copula” Model for Semi-Competing Risks Data

Antoniya Dineva, Oliver Kuss, Annika Hoyer



8:50am - 9:10am

Incorporation of a mixture distribution on frailty regression model for clustered survival data

Gilbert Kiprotich



9:10am - 9:30am

Comparing a time-to-event endpoint in a two-arm trial investigating personalized treatment

Marilena Müller



9:30am - 9:50am

R-package discSurv: A Toolbox for Discrete Time Survival Analysis

Thomas Welchowski, Moritz Berger, David Köhler, Matthias Schmid

10:15am
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11:35am
Competing risks and multistate models
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Pedro Miranda Afonso
 
10:15am - 10:35am

Extending the Vertical Model: an alternative approach to Competing Risks with clustered data

Salvatore Battaglia, Marta Fiocco, Hein Putter



10:35am - 10:55am

Patient Disposition in Clinical Trials: Addressing Competing Risks with Stacked Probability and Proportion Plots

Sam Doerken



10:55am - 11:15am

Discrimination performance in illness-death models with interval-censored disease data

Anja J. Rueten-Budde, Marta Spreafico, Hein Putter, Marta Fiocco



11:15am - 11:35am

Transitions, Sojourns, and Bias: Simulation Insights for Transplant Strategies in Leukemia

Yujun Xu, Ulrich Mansmann

11:45am
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12:45pm
Keynote III: Dennis Dobler
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Kathrin Möllenhoff
 
11:45am - 12:45pm

Resampling options in survival and event history analysis

Dennis Dobler

12:45pm
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1:00pm
Closing Remarks
Location: Wolfgang-Paul-Saal
Chair: Matthias Schmid
Chair: Alina Schenk

 
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