LPhD064 Designing diagnostic test evaluation studies and analyzing diagnostic test validity - with emphasis on latent class analysis

Detaljer
Ansvarligt institutInstitut for Produktionsdyr og Heste

KursusdatoerMay 2012
 
KursustilmeldingTo sign up for the course, please send an e-mail to Nils Toft at nt@life.ku.dk Please also remember to add the course to your PhD plan
 
Deadline for tilmeldingApril 2012
 
Pointværdi3 (ECTS)
 
KursustypePh.d.-kursus
 
UndervisningssprogEngelsk
 
Kursusindhold
Five days of plenary lectures, group work and exercises at KU LIFE followed by a project report (to be written at home) on own data or a dataset provided by the course responsible. Some preparation in terms of reading and data manipulation must be expected. The course uses R and OpenBUGS and will require that the course participant is familiar with R at introductory level before course start (instructions for a tutorial and preparation will be forwarded in due time). The course starts with an introduction to the underlying concepts. This will be done in form of a discussion of the underlying concepts based on literature provided prior to the course start and assumed familiar to the participant.
 
Undervisningsform
Five days of plenary lectures, group work and exercises at KU LIFE followed by a project report (to be written at home) on own data or a dataset provided by the course responsible. Some preparation in terms of reading and data manipulation must be expected.
 
Målbeskrivelse
The course covers the epidemiological aspects of diagnostic test evaluation studies - from the technical aspects of planning, conducting and subsequently analyzing data from such studies, to the underlying assumptions regarding disease definitions, test characteristics and the implications of using a perfect reference tests vs. a latent class approach.
 
Kursusansvarlig
Nils Toft, nt@life.ku.dk, Institut for Produktionsdyr og Heste/Faggruppe: Populationsbiologi, Tlf: 353-33009
 
Evalueringsform
Evalution of project report
 
Kursusbeskrivelsesomfang
forberedelse20
forelæsninger35
projektarbejde35

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