Modern demographic methods in epidemiology

• Lectures and computer practicals:
  Bendix Carstensen, Senior Statistician, Steno Diabetes Center & Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Previous and future courses:
  • Stockholm, 2-3 February 2006.
  • Oslo, 28 February - 1 March 2007. (with Paul Lambert)
  • Aalborg, 14-16 January 2008.
  • Melbourne, February 2008. (with Paul Dickman)
  • St.Andrews, 1-3 June 2010.
• Useful papers:
  • Lexis: An R Class for Epidemiological Studies with Long-term Follow-up.
  • Using Lexis Objects for Multi-state Models in R.
  • Demography and epidemiology: Practical use of the Lexis diagram in the computer age or: Who needs the Cox-model anyway?
  • Basic concepts in survival and demography
  • Rates and (competing) risks: Example calculations using Danish cause of death data
• Mailing list:
  A mailing list for users of R in epidemiology has been set up. Join the list and use it for getting help with your R-problems: Join here.