Join us at the Biostatistics Networking Event at Karolinska Institutet

We are excited to announce that we will be participating in Karolinska Institutet's Biostatistics Networking Event as both an exhibitor and a presenter. Be sure to stop by our booth to chat about projects where we can lend our expertise or simply to catch up on your latest work.

Our CEO and Director of Statistical Methodology, Dr Michael Crowther, will be one of three keynote speakers at the event. He will deliver his talk "Development and implementation of advanced Bayesian survival models" at 16:50. Michael was for many years an academic biostatistician, rising to Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Leicester, before relocating to Stockholm in 2021. He is an expert in survival analysis and joint longitudinal-survival models.

In the talk, Michael takes a brief look back at his own use of Bayesian methods, with a focus on survival analysis — from a master's project using multilevel Poisson models in WinBUGS to his latest work bringing advanced survival-analysis tools to Stata. Using an example in breast cancer, he shows how to estimate competing risks and illness-death multi-state models within a Bayesian framework, incorporating prior information for covariate effects and baseline-hazard parameters, using Stata's bayesmh command.