JSM 2011 Online Program

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CE_22C	Tue, 8/2/2011, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	HQ-Cowrie 1
Methodological Challenges in Environmental Epidemiology for the Statistician — Continuing Education Course
ASA , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Instructor(s): Duncan Thomas, University of Southern California
The current enthusiasm for genetic studies has somewhat distracted attention away from environmental epidemiology, which remains the basic science underlying standard setting in environmental health. This course aims to reignite the interest of statisticians in some of the methodological challenges - some longstanding problems, some quite novel - that are posed by that field. Drawing on the presenter's extensive experience in radiation and air pollution studies, he will describe various outstanding statistical problems and novel approaches that are currently being explored to attack them in the hopes of attracting a new generation of statisticians to devote more attention to this field. Examples to be addressed include novel study designs such as two-phase case-control sampling, exposure-time-response models, spatio-temporal models for exposures and disease rates, and mechanistic models incorporating gene-environment interactions.

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