Sessions Douglas Altman

Programa en Salut Pública i Atenció Primària (CORE)

Biostatistics Support and Research Unit - IGTP

Centre d’Estudis Epidemiològics sobre les Infeccions de Transmissió Sexual i Sida de Catalunya – CEEISCAT

Sessions Douglas Altman

Goal
To share knowledge and foster multidisciplinary collaboration in biostatistics and health research methodology.

Format

  • On-site (IGTP)

  • Online (Microsoft Teams)

When: See program for details.

Questions: For inquiries, please, contact: core@igtp.cat

Sessions Douglas Altman

Douglas Altman: less research, better research.
Data: 27/11/2024
Ponent: Cristian Tebé Cordomí.

Partial Ordered Stereotype Model, a New Model for Ordinal Data.
Data: 12/12/2024
Ponent: Laia Egea Cortés.

Propensity score methods to ensure fair comparisons between treatment groups in observational studies.
Data: 29/01/2025
Ponent: Natàlia Pallarès Fontanet.

Agreement assessment in continuous data with repeated measures.
Data: 27/02/2025
Ponent: Josep Lluís Carrasco Jordan.

The practice of structural equation models (SEM).
Data: 27/03/2025
Ponent: Albert Satorra.

Early-detection of high-risk patient profiles admitted to hospital with respiratory infections using a multistate model.
Data: 24/04/2025
Ponent: João Carmezim.

flowchart: A Tidy R Package for Data Flowchart Generation.
Data: 29/05/2025
Ponent: Pau Satorra Hebrea.

Integrating compositional data analysis in clustering: cluster membership probability as explanatory variable in regression modeling.
Data: 19/06/2025
Ponent: Geòrgia Escaramís Babiano.

Douglas Altman:
less research, better research

Cristian Tebé Cordomí, MPH, PhD Biostatistics Support and Research Unit - IGTP

Douglas Altman 1948-2018

Professor of Statistics & Director of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine
at the University of Oxford.

Bland-Altman plot

Bland, J. Martin, and Douglas G. Altman. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. The Lancet 327.8476 (1986): 307-310.

Statistics for Medical Research

Douglas G. Altman. Practical Statistics for Medical Research. Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science (London 1991).

Statistics notes 1994-2018

Preview

https://www.bmj.com/specialties/statistics-notes

The scandal of poor medical research

Common Issues in Medical Research

Medical research is plagued by methodological weaknesses:

  • Inappropriate study designs.

  • Unrepresentative or small samples.

  • Using the wrong techniques.

  • Wrong use of the right techniques wrongly.

  • Biased interpretations.

Identified causes

  • Inadequate training in research methodology.

  • Ethics committees frequently neglect scientific rigor.

  • Do research or perish.

  • Publish or perish.

Statistical Concerns

  • Lack of robust statistical peer review.

  • Lack of statistical literacy.

  • Misconceptions about statistical software.

Statistical Concerns

We need less research better research, and research done for the right reasons.

Call on action

  • Research methodology training.

  • Collaboration with methodologists from the very beginning.

  • Ethics at the front.

  • STOP Publish-or-Perish Culture.

Equator network

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Research methodology
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Douglas Altman:
less research, better research

Sessions Douglas Altman 2024/25