Comparing Clinical / Biochemical Measurement Methods

(Statistical Analysis of Method Comparison Studies)

Workshop in Adelaide, Thursday 19 February 2009, 9-15
organised by the South Australian branch of the Statistical Society of Australia Inc.

• Contents: The workshop will be a slightly shorter version of the course presented by Bendix Carstensen in Melbourne in February 2008, see here
• Venue:Lower ground of the Napier Building, Napier LG12, University of Adelaide, North Terrace. Opposite the Walter Young Garden (reference J11 on the campus map, available here).
• Cost: $50 for SSAI members and $80 for non-members, with a student rate of $25 for members and $40 for non-members.
• Presenter: Bendix Carstensen, Steno Diabetes Center, Denmark.
  
• Organizer: Andreas Kiermeier, South Australian Research & Development Institute (SARDI).
  
• Computing requirements:
  Participants are assumed to bring their own computer.
  The practicals will run in R, so the following should be installed:
  • R:
    Install the latest version of R, 2.8.1, available from the R homepage. (Click on "CRAN" under "Download" in the left side).
    Additionally, please install the R-packages:
    • The R-packages Epi, BRugs, R2WinBUGS and coda by issuing the command from inside R:
      install.packages(c("Epi","BRugs","R2WinBUGS","coda"))
    • The R-package MethComp version 0.5.2. This is not (yet) officially available at CRAN (the official package repository for R). You can get the Windows binary file MethComp_0.5.2.zip from here . This should be unzipped in the folder:
      C:\Program files\R\R-2.8.1\library (or wherever you have installed R).
  • WinBUGS:
    Is not really needed if you install BRugs You can get it from here.
    Remember to register as a user and get a free key file to get it working.
• Reading:
  • M Bland & DG Altman: Measuring agreement in method comparison studies.
  • B Carstensen, JA Simpson & L Gurrin: Statistical models for assessing agreement in method comparison studies with replicate measurements.
  • (Esoteric) B Carstensen: Comparing and predicting between several methods of measurement.
• Practicals in pdf-format. Beware: 92 pages as it also contains the manual pages for the MethComp package. You may want to print only the first 24 pages (or 57 if you want the practicals solutions too).
• Slides, 3-ups. 8-ups. (Note: subject to change).