Workshop "Hierarchical models in preclinical research"

Workshop of the IBS-DR working groups Non-clinical statistics and Bayes Methods.
Göttingen, December 5-6, 2024.

 

Venue:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB)
    Zentralbibliothek
    Großer Seminarraum (1st floor)
    Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1
    51°32'23.2"N  9°56'07.8"E

 

Announcement and call for papers

Program (PDF)

 

Thursday, December 5, 2024:

14:00-14:05	Welcome
14:05-14:45	Lea Vaas (Bayer AG, Berlin): Virtual control groups in toxicity studies	[abstract] [slides]
14:45-15:30	Sebastian Weber, Lukas Widmer (Novartis AG, Basel): Tutorial, Part  1: Historical controls	[website] [slides] [exercises]
15:30-16:10	Jonathan Rathjens (Chrestos, Essen): Prediction intervals based on historical controls for the micronucleus test	[slides]
16:10-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:15	Sebastian Weber, Lukas Widmer (Novartis AG, Basel): Tutorial, Part 2: Dose finding
17:15-17:55	Reinhard Vonthein (Universität zu Lübeck): A study in which I could not help, not even with Bayesian hierarchical models	[abstract]
17:55-18:05	Short break
18:05-18:30	Meeting: Bayes-AG
19:45	Informal get-together and dinner (Bullerjahn)

 

Friday, December 6, 2024:

08:30-09:15	Sebastian Weber, Lukas Widmer (Novartis AG, Basel): Tutorial, Part 3: Mixed models with repeated measurements
09:15-09:55	Renato Panaro (UMG, Göttingen): Assessing the relative effect in hierarchical binomial models for meta-analysis	[abstract]
09:55-10:35	Christian Röver (UMG, Göttingen: Prior distributions from meta-analytic predictions	[abstract] [slides]
10:35-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:45	Sebastian Weber, Lukas Widmer (Novartis AG, Basel): Tutorial, Part 4: Longitudinal data
11:45-12:25	Matthias Kloft (Philipps-Universität Marburg): The interval truth model: A cultural consensus model for continuous bounded interval responses	[abstract] [slides]
12:25-12:30	Farewell

 

(note: all times are CET (UTC+1))