Seminare und Events

2024

• Summer Biometric Seminar 2024
  Bridging the Gap Between Bayesian & Frequentist Approaches in Clinical Trials for Drug Development
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Franz König, Elias Laurin Meyer

2023

• Herbstseminar SAMBA
  Statistical Model Building Strategies for Cardiologic Applications: New results and future challenges
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Daniela Dunkler, Georg Heinze, Heiko Becher, Geraldine Rauch
  23–24 November 2023

• Joint Seminar with the Biometric Section of Styria-Carinthia
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Florian Frommlet, Sereina Herzog
  4 May 2023

2020

• Joint Seminar with the Biometric Section of Styria-Carinthia and the Department of Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Health Economics
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Andrea Berghold, Franz König
  2 December 2020

2019

• WBS Autumn Seminar
  Update in Evidence Synthesis Methods - Current Topics in Meta-analysis
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Harald Herkner, Susanne Strohmaier
  13 November 2019

  Presentations:

  • Gerald Gartlehner: Evidence-based medicine can harm your health - Cochrane Austria’s battle against fake health news Slides
    
  • Irma Klerings: Systematic literature searching Slides
    
  • Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit: Research on methodological aspects of evidence syntheses - Current insights Slides
    
  • Thomas Debray: Systematic review and meta-analysis of prediction model studies Slides
    
  • Maria Haller: A systematic review of risk prediction models in living donor transplantation - Unmasking flawed predictions Slides
    
  • Martin Posch: Repeated meta-analysis: Pros and cons of multiplicity adjustments Slides
    
  • Dominik Roth: Influence of different mortality time points on pooled effect estimates Slides

• WBS Seminar
  Update your prior: The power of Bayesian Tools for Research
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Franz König, Elias Meyer, Martin Posch, Simon Wandel
  22 February 2019

2018

• Joint Seminar with the Biometric Section of Styria-Carinthia (co-organized with IDEAS ITN)
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Andrea Berghold, Franz König, Nicolas Ballarini
  29 November 2018

  Presentations:

  • Thomas Jaki: The IDEAS network: Training and research under one umbrella Slides
    
  • Andreas Gleiss: Quantifying degrees of necessity and sufficiency in cause-effect relationships with dichotomous and survival outcomes
    
  • Edith Hofer: Genome-wide association study of cortical thickness, surface area and volume – A case study!
  • Sonja Zehetmayer: A new omnibus test for the global null hypothesis Slides
    
  • Alexander Avian: Scaling properties of pain intensity ratings in pediatric populations using the Faces Pain Scale-revised Slides
    
  • Susanne Strohmaier: Time-dependent mediators in survival analysis: Modeling direct and indirect effects with the additive hazards model Slides
    
  • Susanne Urach: Testing endpoints with unknown correlation Slides
    
  • Michael Kammer: Combining dynamic Cox prediction models and the Lasso
    
  • Nicolas Ballarini: Graphical approaches for subgroup analysis in clinical trials

• Workshop
  Instrumental Variable Methods in Epidemiology
  Presenter: Sonja A. Swanson
  Program

  Organizer: Georg Heinze

2017

• Short Course
  Exploratory Subgroup Analyses in Clinical Trials
  Program

  Organizer and Presenter: Gerd Rosenkranz
  6 December 2017

• WBS Autumn Seminar
  Young Statisticians
  Program

  Organizers: Johanna Mielke, Julia Niewczas, Nicolas Ballarini
  25 October 2017

• Joint Seminar with the Hungarian Society for Clinical Biostatistics and Accelsiors Ltd.
  2nd Annual Biosimilars Forum
  Program

  Organizers: Julia Singer, Stephan Lehr
  6 October 2017

2016

• WBS Advent Seminar
  Sample Size
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Martina Mittlböck, Harald Heinzl
  19 December 2016

• Joint Seminar with the Biometric Section of Styria-Carinthia
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Andrea Berghold, Franz König
  24 November 2016

• WBS Autumn Seminar 2016
  (Co-organized with EU Project FP7 IDeAl and Asterix)
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Franz König, Martin Posch
  9 November 2016

  Presentations:

  • R. A. Bailey: The design of blocked experiments when the average replication is very low Slides
    
  • Christopher Jennison: Designing an adaptive trial with treatment selection and a survival endpoint Slides
    
  • Ralf-Dieter Hilgers: The selection of a randomization procedure to avoid the impact of bias on the test result in clinical trials – A case study! Slides
    
  • Stephen Senn: On being Bayesian Slides
    
  • Kit Roes: Hybrid Bayesian-frequentist approaches for small sample trial design: examples and discussion on concepts Slides

• Joint Seminar with the Hungarian Society for Clinical Biostatistics and Accelsiors Ltd.
  1st Annual Biosimilars Forum
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Julia Singer, Stephan Lehr
  7 October 2016

• First Joint Seminar with the Austrian Society for Epidemiology
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Thomas Waldhör, Martina Mittlböck, Harald Heinzl
  30 September 2016

  Presentations:

  • Gerald Gartlehner: Evidence-based Medicine: Optimal decisions require the best available knowledge
    
  • Julia Kerschbaum: Cardiovascular and renal long-term complications after living kidney donation – A systematic review and single-center analysis
    
  • Daniela Zöller: Pseudo-value regression in competing risks settings
    
  • Josef Fritz: Do metabolic risk factors mediate the genetic risk for coronary heart disease?
    
  • Lin Yang: Leisure-time physical activity and circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in cancer survivors

• WBS Summer Seminar 2016
  To New Shores in Drug Development - Implementing Statistical Innovation
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Martin Posch, Franz König
  27 June 2016

  Presentations:

  • Willi Maurer: A robust combination test for sample size adaptation in a two-stage cross-over trial for Average Bioequivalence
    
  • Peter Bauer: Flexibility in confirmatory clinical trials – what is for free?
    
  • Frank Bretz: Changing the Culture of Drug Development: The Need to Implement Innovative Scientific Solutions

• WBS Festsymposium: 25 Years of Clinical Biometry
  Advances in Trial Design
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizer: Georg Heinze
  14 April 2016

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2015

• WBS Autumn Seminar 2015
  Advances in Trial Design
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizer: Franz König
  7 October 2015

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2014

• WBS Winter Seminar 2014
  Innovative Statistical Approaches in Drug Development
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Franz König, Martin Posch, Stephan Lehr
  2 December 2014

• WBS Autumn Seminar 2014
  Applied Statistics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizer: Karl Moder
  6 November 2014

  Presentations:

  • Bernhard Spangl: Extreme value statistics and robust filtering for hydrological data Slides
    
  • Gregor Laaha: Geostatistical models for river networks Slides
    
  • Rainer Dangl & Friedrich Leisch: The benchmark data library project: A metadata repository for artificial data Slides

• WBS Summer Seminar 2014
  Re-use of Health Data for Medical Research
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Georg Heinze, Franz König, Martin Posch
  12 June 2014

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2013

• WBS Autumn Seminar 2013
  Book Presentations in Statistics
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Gerhard Svolba, Franz König
  21 November 2013

  Presentations:

  • Reinhard Viertl: Statistics Based on Imprecise Information Slides
  • Peter Filzmoser: Multivariate Regression and Classification with Applications in Chemometrics Slides
  • Klemens Schadauer: Forest Inventories Around the World - More than Counting Trees? Slides
  • Thomas Benesch: Key Concepts in Statistics: Methods, Distributions, and Tests Explained Simply Slides
  • Herbert Nagel: Comments on “R Introduction through Applied Statistics” Slides
  • Gerhard Svolba: Data Quality for Analytics Using SAS Slides

• WBS Summer Seminar 2013
  Did the Genomic Data Flood Overrun the Statistical Levee? Statistical Approaches to Analyze Genomic Data (Without Drowning)
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Georg Heinze, Stephan Lehr
  4 July 2013

  Presentations:

  • Stephan Lehr: Practical Aspects in Design and Analysis of Biomarker Studies Slides
  • Andreas Gleiss: Test Statistics for Two-group Comparisons of Zero-inflated Intensity Values Slides
  • Sonja Zehetmayer: Stopping Rules for Sequential Trials in High-dimensional Data Slides
  • Markus Jaritz: Next-generation Sequencing Data Analysis: From ChIP-seq Read Islands to Epigenomics Information Slides
  • Christoph Bock: The Relevance of Next-generation Sequencing for Personalized Medicine
    
  • Lara Lusa (University of Ljubljana): Class-imbalanced class prediction for high-dimensional data Slides
  • Daniela Dunkler (Med. Univ. Wien): Gene selection in microarray survival studies under non-proportional hazards Slides
  • Harald Binder (Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz): Regularized regression for omics data: Why one size doesn’t fit all, but you nevertheless should try Slides
  • Georg Heinze (Med. Univ. Wien): How the levee bears out against the flood: summary and discussion Slides

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2012

• WBS Autumn Seminar 2012
  Statistische Software für Biometrische Auswertungen
  Program & Abstracts
  Organizers: Gerhard Svolba, Franz König
  27 November 2012

  Presentations:

  • Dr. Valérie Nedbal: JMP® for Life Sciences Adds Ways to Explore Clinical Data Visually Slides
  • Friedrich Leisch: R from a Different Perspective: Beyond the Command Prompt
    
  • Gerhard Svolba: Analytical Data Management and Biometric Analyses with SAS 9.3
    Slides SAS Files
  • Christian Trippner: Information on IBM Business Analytics Slides