Thursday, January 30, 2020; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Section outline
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Lecture: Person-time and Bias (In-Person Lecture)
Fixed vs. open cohorts; the dynamic allocation of person-time in longitudinal cohorts; patient or survivor cohorts; particular bias issues discussed in the setting of patient cohorts (including selection bias, immortal-person time bias, measurement error bias, confounding by indication, and residual confounding); and how emulation of a target trial may help avoid some of these biases.
Faculty: June Chan
Location: Mission Hall 1407
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For those interested in a bit more background information on survival analysis, please see this chapter written by Dr. McCulloch for the UCSF medical students, in 2016. We are sharing this supplemental information with his permission. Please note there may be internal references in this chapter to other texts from that course, which are not relevant for EPI207. (citation: Ch. 65 of the UCSF SOM Mechanisms, Methods, and Malignancy syllabus, 2016, copyright UC Regents)