Monday, October 5

14.00 

Course presentation (lecture)

14.15

Measuring disease occurrence (lecture)

14.45

Measuring disease occurence I (hands on session)

15.00

Measuring disease occurrence II (hands on session)

15.30

Coffee break

15.45

Cohort and case control studies (lecture)

16.30

Study design (hands on session)

18.00

Session end

Tuesday, October 6

8.30

Simple analysis of risk and prevalence data (lecture)

9.00

Surrogate end-points in clinical research in nephrology (lecture)

9.45

Bias and confounding in epidemiologic studies (lecture)

10.30

Coffee break

10.45 

Confounding (hands on session)

11.00

Ways to address confounding: stratification and regression (lecture)

12.00 

Lunch

13.15

Stratification (hands on session)

13.30

Prediction and correction for confounding (lecture)

14.30

Introduction to SPSS: linear regression (hands on session)

15.30 

Coffee break

16.00

Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (lecture)

17.00

Survival analysis I – Kaplan Meier (hands on session)

17.45

Session end

Thursday, October 7

8.30

Survival analysis II – Cox regression (lecture)     

9.30

Survival analysis II – Part 1, survival curves  (hands on session)

10.00

Coffee break

10.15

Survival analysis II – Part 2, Cox regression (hands on session)

11.15

Various (lecture)

12.00

Session end