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SUMMARY:Introduction to Quantitative Bias
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” overlay_strength=”0.3″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Join us for a two-hour workshop (lecture and practical) with Dr Rachael Hughes as she introduces the Quantitative Bias Analysis (QBA) framework, and shows how to apply it for problems of unobserved confounders in observational studies. QBA is an essential framework to assess the robustness of findings to common assumption violations. Designed for researchers and students new to sensitivity analysis, this session will emphasise intuition and practical applications.
Participants should bring their own laptop with R pre-installed (we recommend that you also install the R packages ‘sensemakr’ and ‘unmconf’ in preparation for the practical part of the workshop).[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Contributors

Dr Rachael A. Hughes is a Senior Research Fellow in Medical Statistics at the University of Bristol’s Medical School (Population Health Sciences), affiliated with the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit. Her research spans longitudinal modelling in life-course epidemiology, causal inference, missing-data methods, instrumental variable analysis, selection bias, and the clinical epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in the era of antiretroviral therapy. Dr Hughes is especially recognised for her contributions in quantitative bias analysis (QBA), particularly methods to address unmeasured confounding, measurement error, misclassification, and selection bias, and for advancing their accessibility through practical software tools and reviews. Her recent methodological work includes co-authoring a BMC Medical Research Methodology review on QBA software for mismeasured variables.
Professor Jose Pina-Sánchez is Professor in Quantitative Criminology at the University of Leeds and Director of Advanced Quantitative Methods for the White Rose DTP.

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This is a hybrid event, taking place online and at the University of Leeds.
Bookings will close at 9am on Thursday 27th November.
When booking your place, we ask that you use your institutional (.ac.uk) email address and complete all fields of the booking form. Thank you for your understanding.
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URL:https://wrdtp.ac.uk/events/introduction-to-quantitative-bias/
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