Friday, January 15, 2010
Hello everyone. Just a few updates for our data managers/CRA's
We wanted to make surethat everyone is aware the that the CIBMTR is going to launch a new Website very soon as in before the end of January if all goes well!!!!
Short Course Announcement at BMT Tandem Meetings
Presenters:
John P. Klein, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Statistical Director of the CIBMTR
Brent R. Logan, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Statistician, CIBMTR
This course is provided free of charge due to support from the CIBMTR
NOW AVAILABLE:
Biostatistics Lectures Online at OpenWebU
Lectures on statistical topics by Medical College of Wisconsin Biostatistics and CIBMTR faculty.
The new Website is going to have a slick link directly to the mentors site. The page that opens has the scoop to 2010 Tandem.
Below are some interesting information and links that might be useful:
1. Your research opportunity and change in session
2. MCW biostatistics Department is offering a short course titled: How to do basic survival analysis using SAS.
To get a copy of the handouts page for the Fall Meeting, go to cimbtr.org, click on "meetings" and click on 2010, following the steps above the link immediately above.
3. For the first time oral abstracts will be presented. From the abstract/poster submissions we were able to select 3.
4. Our group has posters accepted, Poster session is Wed, Feb 24 6:15pm.
5. Panelists will be presenting "center best practices". We had an overwhelming response of really terrific submissions
Please plan to attend the mentoring reception, they are always so much fun and it will give everone time to catch up and talk.
We wanted to make surethat everyone is aware the that the CIBMTR is going to launch a new Website very soon as in before the end of January if all goes well!!!!
Short Course Announcement at BMT Tandem Meetings
Title: How to do Basic Survival Analysis Using SAS Software
Topics include:
· Plotting and interpreting survival and cumulative incidence curves
· Obtaining confidence intervals for survival or cumulative incidence probabilities
· Performing a log-rank test to compare two survival curves
· Fitting and understanding a Cox proportional hazards regression model
Datasets and SAS code used in the course will be available to participants to try on their own after the course.
Presenters:
John P. Klein, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Statistical Director of the CIBMTR
Brent R. Logan, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Statistician, CIBMTR
This course is provided free of charge due to support from the CIBMTR
NOW AVAILABLE:
Biostatistics Lectures Online at OpenWebU
Lectures on statistical topics by Medical College of Wisconsin Biostatistics and CIBMTR faculty.
The new Website is going to have a slick link directly to the mentors site. The page that opens has the scoop to 2010 Tandem.
Below are some interesting information and links that might be useful:
1. Your research opportunity and change in session
2. MCW biostatistics Department is offering a short course titled: How to do basic survival analysis using SAS.
To get a copy of the handouts page for the Fall Meeting, go to cimbtr.org, click on "meetings" and click on 2010, following the steps above the link immediately above.
3. For the first time oral abstracts will be presented. From the abstract/poster submissions we were able to select 3.
4. Our group has posters accepted, Poster session is Wed, Feb 24 6:15pm.
5. Panelists will be presenting "center best practices". We had an overwhelming response of really terrific submissions
Please plan to attend the mentoring reception, they are always so much fun and it will give everone time to catch up and talk.
