2nd Corsican Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology 2019

As part of the HEAR+STAT series of courses organised by the research unit SESSTIM, the Challenges in the Estimation of Net SURvival (CENSUR) working survival Group proposes a new edition of the advanced course on statistical methods for excess risk analysis.

The city of Corte, Corsica, France, will again host the international course “Statistical methods and recent advances in statistical methods for excess risk analysis”. This place was very appreciated by previous attendees. At the foot of the Corsican mountains, with beautiful natural swimming pool carved in rocks, also close to the sea, Corte has a pleasant and convivial atmosphere. This makes it an excellent meeting point for researchers to exchange theory, methods and applications of statistical methods and advanced methods in health research and practice.

This intensive course covers the field of net survival and excess mortality, investigating both theoretical and application aspects using R software. The Course is intended for biostatisticians, statisticians, epidemiologists; researchers and students; those working in a registry of cancer, of chronic disease or in any other field relevant to these methodologies and applications.

The course is organised by Professor Roch Giorgi, from the SESSTIM, and by the CENSUR working survival Group.

 › Theme of the course and objectives

Net survival, the survival related to excess mortality hazard, is a measure of disease survival and can be interpreted as the survival that would be observed in a hypothetical situation where all the risks of dying from other causes than the disease of interest have been removed. The statistical methods for excess risk analysis have been developed to analyse data from population-based cancer registries, providing useful indicators to study socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival, in the evaluation of health policies, and for public health decision making.

The complexity of the research questions and of the data, the necessity to have more adequate tolls, to improve the quality and the comparability of cancer survival data, and to promote methodological transfers in areas of emerging interest constitute some methodological challenges.

The course will focus on:

• the main statistical methods and the more recent advances in statistical methods for excess risk analysis;
• the transfer of methods for net survival estimations to some other specific applications (clinical research, occupational epidemiology).
   

The course will be taught by international researchers (France, United-Kingdom, and Slovenia) highly skilled in biostatistics, methodology, and epidemiology, from different research departments and implied in French (FRANCIM) and European (EUROCARE) networks of cancer registries.

The main objectives of the course are:

• to disseminate the concepts, methods and the more recent statistical tools to analyse net survival and excess mortality;
• to offer an informal and user-friendly setting of scientific exchanges in order to improve knowledge and practical skills to estimate, model, program, analyse and interpret results of excess risk analysis.

 › Programme

The scientific programme has been designed to meet the double objective of acquiring knowledge and skills in order to estimate, model, program using R software, analyse and interpret results of excess risk analysis.

Themes of the course:

• Goals, epistemological aspects
• Indicators-Interpretation
• Non-parametric estimators of net survival
• Parametric models for excess mortality
• Flexible parametric models for excess mortality
• Introduction to penalized framework
• Handling missing data
• Diagnostic tools
• Frailty models
• Multiple events analysis
• Handling expected rates tables (without, with missing information) and extensions to other fields: clinical research, epidemiology of occupational health

Scientific programme of the course

 › Faculty

An international faculty composed of international researchers (France, United-Kingdom, and Slovenia) highly skilled in biostatistics, methodology, and epidemiology, from different research departments and implied in French (FRANCIM) and European (EUROCARE) networks of cancer registries.

Image  :	Aurélien Belot Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes Network, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United-Kingdom	Image  :	Guy Hédelin Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
Image  :	Hadrien Charvat Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan	Image  :	Valérie Jooste Registre Bourguignon des Cancers Digestifs, Dijon, France FRANCIM, CHU de Dijon, INSERM 1231, Université de Bourgogne
Image  :	Emmanuelle Dantony Hospices Civils de Lyon-UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, CNRS, France	Image  :	Edmund Njeru Njagi Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Image  :	Mathieu Fauvernier Hospices Civils de Lyon-UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, CNRS, France	Image  :	Maja Pohar-Perme Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Image  :	Roch Giorgi SESSTIM, UMR 1252, ISSPAM, Inserm/IRD/Aix-Marseille Université, France	Image  :	Bernard Rachet Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes Network, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United-Kingdom
Image  :	Juste Goungounga EHESP School of public health, RSMS “Health services and management research team” INSERM 1309, CNRS 6051, Rennes, France.	Image  :	Laurent Remontet Hospices Civils de Lyon-UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, CNRS, France
Image  :	Michel Grzebyk Départment Épidemiologie en Entreprise, Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France	Image  :	Laurent Roche Hospices Civils de Lyon-UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, CNRS, France
Image  :	Zoé Urhy Santé Publique France - Hospices Civils de Lyon-UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, CNRS, France	Image  :	Pascale Grosclaude Registre des cancers du Tarn IUCT O - INSERM UMR1027 équipe EQUITY, Toulouse, France
Image  :	Nadine Bossard Départment Épidemiologie en Entreprise, Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France		Marc Colonna Registre des cancers de l’Isère, Grenoble, France
Image  :	Nathalie Grafféo SESSTIM, UMR 1252 Inserm/IRD/Aix-Marseille Université, France

 Who should attend?

Biostatisticians, statisticians, epidemiologists; researchers and students; working in a registry of cancer, of chronic disease or in any other field relevant to these methodologies and applications.

International audience.

The number of participants is limited to 40 persons.

 › Course language

Course will be taught in English. All instruction and course materials will be in English too.

 › Computing

Almost half of the course will be devoted to practical applications. Therefore, the applicants will have the opportunity to apply the methods described in the course using real or simulated data.

Computing sessions will be organised using R software. These sessions will be the opportunity for participants and for the faculty to bring them together to have exiting knowledge exchange.

Computers will be provided (Windows). Participants can use our computers or bring their own laptop computers.

Previous experience of using R software is a pre-requisite.

 › One week of Summer School in Corte

To acces the completes videos, the slides of videos and the practicals contents please go to this Private page.

 › Scientific programme committee

Roch Giorgi (UMR 1252 SESSTIM; France); Pascale Grosclaude (FRANCIM, registre des cancers du Tarn; France); Guy Hédelin (Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité; France); Bernard Rachet (ICON, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology; Angleterre); Laurent Remontet (Hospices Civiles de Lyon-UMR 5588, Université de Lyon, CNRS; France); Maja Pohar-Perme (Institute for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Slovenie).

 › Local organisers

Image  :	Roch Giorgi SESSTIM, UMR 1252, ISSPAM, Inserm/IRD/Aix-Marseille Université, France
Image  :	Nathalie Grafféo SESSTIM, UMR 1252, ISSPAM, Inserm/IRD/Aix-Marseille Université, France
Image  :	Juste Goungounga SESSTIM, UMR 1252 Inserm/IRD/Aix-Marseille Université, France

Lamia Daffri

SESSTIM, UMR 1252, ISSPAM, Inserm/IRD/Aix-Marseille Université, France

 › Course dinner

Thursday, July 11th at 8:00 pm

The social dinner will take place at the Hôtel Arena Le refuge, located 35 min walk from the center of Corte, and 35 min walk from the University.

It will be an opportunity for us to exchange in a convivial environment while tasting local products and listening to Corsican music.

 › Social activities

Corte tourist office

Corte city hall

Corsica tourist office

› Course venue

The course will be held at the Université de Corse Pascal Paoli, at the campus Grimaldi, in Corte, Corsica, France. Theoretical parts will be in the amphitheatre Jean Nicoli, and practical parts using R software will be in computing rooms.

Amphitheatre Jean Nicoli (Bâtiment Culombu, Université de Corse Pascal Paoli) GPS coordinates: 42.298448,9.152891

Corte, course venue map

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› Getting to Corsica

General overview and transports to Corsica

› Getting to Corte

By train

Main distances

Guide to Corte

› Accommodation

Hotels

Course participants are responsible for booking their room directly with the hotels. After registering for the course, please book your hotel as soon as possible. Please take note of the terms and conditions of the chosen hotel (especially in case of cancellation).

Listing of hotels

Apart hotel

› About Corte

Corte tourist office

Corte city hall

› Pictures

Image  :  LA RESTONICA	Image  :  CALVI	Image  :  BASTIA	Image  :  AIGUILLES DE BAVELLA
Image  :  BONIFACIO	Image  :  NONZA	Image  :  ILES SANGUINAIRES	Image  :  CALANQUES DE PIANA

Registration includes access to the 5 days of the course, morning and afternoon tea breaks, daily lunch breaks on each day and invitation to the course reception on the evening of Thursday 11^th July.

Please note that hotel reservations must be made by participants, since the registration fees exclude travel and accommodation costs.

› Course fees

* The deadline for registration is June 15th, 2019

** For the Inserm members, or members of a team labelled by Inserm, training office Inserm “Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur et Corse” will take charge of 5 registrations of agents paid by Inserm, on the proposal of the organizer of the Corsican Summer School. Order forms, with a short summary of the interest for this advanced course, must be sent to the attention of the local organisers by email: gestion_admin.u1252@inserm.fr.

*** For the ISCB members asking for the discount, 2022 ISCB membership must be provided. See information on the online registration on how to proceed.

**** The course reception (dinner with Corsican songs) is free of charge. Registration to the course reception is made during the online registration.

›  Method of payment

• Online registration
• Order form (for agents taken in charge for by Inserm).

› Course reception registration

Please download the course reception registration form, fill out the form, one for each participant, and then send it by email to Mrs Daffri at: gestion_admin.u1252@inserm.fr, with the subject: “HEAR+STAT 2029”.

›  Cancellation reception registration

• In case of cancellation of participation until May 31st, 2022 the registration fee will be refunded.
• After June 01st, 2022 there will be no refund whatsoever.
• Cancellations must be communicated in written form.

Lamia Daffri: gestion_admin.u1252@inserm.fr