Activities
Recent
Topic-contributed paper session at Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), 6 Aug 2025. Speaker for TG2: Marc Henrion. Topic of the talk: STRATOS Topic Group 2 – Selection of variables and functional forms in multivariable analysis: Results from a review of Covid-19 prognostic models.Find out more
Internal TG2 meeting in Vienna, 7-9 May 2025 at the Center for Medical Data Science, including a public talk by Matthias Schmid on Achieving explainable machine learning by functional decomposition of black-box models into explainable predictor effects
Georg Heinze and Theresa Ullmann presented a 3-hour Statistics in Practice Showcase session at the International Biometric Conference in Atlanta, GA, USA, December 2024. Find out more at https://www.ibc2024.org. The slides are available at OSF here.
Upcoming
Minisymposium at the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) conference in Basel, CH, 28 Aug 2025. Topic of the session: Statistical Research needs to improve – on the important roles of simulation studies and guidance for analysis. Speakers (among others): Georg Heinze, Willi Sauerbrei, Michal Abrahamowicz. Find out more
Invited session at 70th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometrics and Epidemiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e. V., GMDS) in Jena, Germany, 7-11 Sep 2025. Speaker for TG2: Gregor Buch. Topic of the talk: STRATOS Topic Group 2 – Selection of variables and functional forms in multivariable analysis: Results from a review of Covid-19 prognostic models. Find out more (in German)
Invited session at the ROeS 2025 (Conference of the Austro-Swiss Region of the International Biometric Society) in Graz, A, 14-18 Sep 2025. Topic of the session: Contrasting Bayesian and frequentist model building for descriptive research questions - a paired-design experiment of STRATOS-TG2. Invited speaker: Mariana Nold, further speakers for TG2: Michael Kammer, Georg Heinze, Aliaksandr Hubin
Invited talk at the ROeS 2025 (Conference of the Austro-Swiss Region of the International Biometric Society) in Graz, A, 14-18 Sep 2025. Topic of the session: Towards best practices in medical statistics: The need to implement innovative scientific solutions. Speaker: Theresa Ullmann. Topic of the talk: Neutral Comparisons Of Statistical Methods: Opportunities, Challenges, And Common Issues (Includes as an example TG2-P11, Simulation study on variable selection)