Statistical Analysis in the Lexis Diagram:
Age-Period-Cohort models

Monday 19 - Wednesday 21 September, 2011.
Lisboa, Portugal.

• Lectures: Bendix Carstensen,
  Senior Statistician, Steno Diabetes Center
  & External Lecturer, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Practicals: Bendix Carstensen.
  The format of the course will be short lectures followed by practicals in R. Participants are required to bring their own computer with R installed.
• Organizers: Ana Papoila, Lisete Sousa; Center of Statistics and Applications, University of Lisboa
• Venue: University of Lisbon. Details t.b.a.
• Course fee: 380 EUR.
• Application deadline: 1 September 2011.
• Application form
• Practicals (very preliminary) for the course in pdf-format.
• Linear algebra notes (preliminary) which will be useful used for practicals and assignments.
• Here are some statistical papers discussing APC model. It will be useful to have browsed these before the course:
  • T.R. Holford: The estimation of age, period and cohort effects for vital rates. Biometrics, 39:311-324, 1983.
  • D. Clayton & E. Schifflers: Models for temporal variation in cancer rates. I: Age-period and age-cohort models; II: Age-period-cohort models. Statistics in Medicine, 6: 449-481, 1987.
  • B. Carstensen: Age-Period-Cohort models for the Lexis diagram. Statistics in Medicine, 26: 3018-3045, 2007.