Past Events

For details (abstracts, slides, websites, photos), follow the links. Unless otherwise stated, the event took place at the IBMI.

2012

• Demografska statistika v praksi
  Tina Žnidaršič, Statistical office of the Republic of Slovenia (13 June 2012)
• Sequential Approach to QC Analysis of Inspection Process
  John Carson, PhD, Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure, Ohio, USA (29 May 2012)
• Different views on quality
  Marko Kiauta, Slovensko združenje za kakovost in odličnost (24 April 2012)
• Class prediction for high-dimensional class-imbalanced data
  Rok Blagus, PhD, University of Ljubljana (20 March 2012)
• Segmentation of the magnetic resonance brain images with the use of local descriptive statistics
  Andrej Vovk, PhD, University of Ljubljana (14 February 2012)
• Process capability
  Prof Gregor Dolinar, PhD, University of Ljubljana (17 January 2012)

2011

• Markov processes of imprecise probabilities
  Damjan Škulj, Phd, University of Ljubljana (20 December 2011)
• Workflows for quantitative mRNA expression analysis: strengths and criticalities
  Prof Raffaele A Calogero, Phd, University of Torino (22 November 2011)
• Parameter Inference in Bayesian Statistics
  Gregor Gorjanc, PhD, University of Ljubljana (24 October 2011)
• REGISTER-BASED CENSUS 2011 - new achievement of Slovenian statistics
  Danilo Dolenc, Msc, Statistical office of the Republic of Slovenia (15 June 2011)
• Models for Survival in Matched Pairs
  Mette Gerster, PhD, University Southern Denmark (30 May 2011)
• A flexible parametric alternative to the Cox model
  Paul C Lambert, PhD, University of Leicester (13 April 2011)
• Chasing the doped athletes - too much or too little statistics?
  Maja Pohar Perme, PhD, University of Ljubljana (15 March 2011)
• Computing relative survival and estimating net survival: what are the routinely used methods doing?
  Prof Jacques Estève, PhD, University of Lyon (10 February 2011)
• Round table about popularisation of statistics
  (7 January 2011)

2010

• Introduction to event history/survival analysis using the counting process approach
  Anamarija Rebolj, University of Ljubljana (22 December 2010)
• Quality of Health Care in Slovenia
  Prof. Marjan Pajntar, PhD, University of Ljubljana (23 November 2010)
• Use of statistics in the field of quantitative genetics
  Gregor Gorjanc, University of Ljubljana (11 October 2010)
• Statistical issues emerging in training and evaluating classification models in presence of rare events
  Giovanna Menardi, University of Padova (7 June 2010)
• About experiments
  Prof. Katarina Košmelj, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (11 May, 2010)
• Geographic analysis in oncological epidemiology
  Assist.Prof. Vesna Zadnik, PhD, Cancer Registry of RS, Slovenia (13 April, 2010)
• Decision trees
  Assist.Prof. Bojan Leskošek, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (16 March, 2010)
• Measuring ego-centered social networks
  Assist.Prof. Tina Kogovšek, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (22 February, 2010)
• Measures of Agreement
  Assist.Prof. Gaj Vidmar, PhD, University Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia (26 January, 2010)

2009

• HEALTH RELATED DATA SOURCES Data collections managed by the Institute of Public Health RS (IVZ)
  Mojca Omerzu, Public Health Institute of Slovenia (15 December, 2009)
• Slovenian tool for web surveys and on-line statistical analyses
  Prof. Vasja Vehovar, PhD, University of Ljubljana (24 November, 2009)
• Multiple testing of hierarchically structured hypotheses
  Livio Finos, University of Padova (12 October, 2009)
• RR, OR and HR
  Prof. Janez Stare, PhD, University of Ljubljana (18 June, 2009)
• On Confidence Intervals
  Prof. Andrej Blejec, PhD, University of Ljubljana (20 May, 2009)
• Dissecting an alternative splicing analysis workflow for GeneChip Exon 1.0 ST Affymetrix arrays
  Prof. Raffaele Calogero, PhD, University of Torino (17 April 2009)
• Fair Valuation of Life Insurance Liabilities
  Pietro Millossovich, PhD, University of Trieste, Department of Applied Mathematics (23 March 2009)
• FOCUS GROUPS AS A DATA COLLECTION METHOD
  Prof. Valentina Hlebec, PhD, University of Ljubljana (26 February, 2009)
• Clustering Relational Data
  Prof. Anuška Ferligoj, PhD, University of Ljubljana (20 January, 2009)

2008

• Inducing Process Models in System Biology
  Asist.Prof. Ljupčo Todorovski, PhD, University of Ljubljana (17 December, 2008)
• Meta-analysis in environmental epidemiology
  dr. Michela Baccini, Department of Statistics "G. Parenti", University of Florence and Biostatistics Unit, ISPO (25 November, 2008)
• RELATIVE SURVIVAL: UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPTS AND USING THE METHOD
  prof. Jacques Estève, Lyon (14 October, 2008)
• MULTI-STATE MODELS: AN OVERVIEW
  prof. Per Kragh Andersen, PhD, Dept. Biostatistics, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark (16 June, 2008)
• R + LaTex = Sweave
  prof. Andrej Blejec, PhD, National Institute of Biology (19 May, 2008)
• ECONOMETRICS – HETEROSCEDASTICITY
  prof. Lovrenc Pfajfar, PhD (15 April, 2008)
• STATISTICAL METHODS AND APPROACHES IN BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
  Borut Pretnar, PhD (12 February, 2008)
• CLASSIFICATION METHODS FOR MICROARRAY EXPERIMENTS
  Lara Lusa, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (12 February, 2008)
• GRADUATE STUDENTS OF STATISTICS ON THEIR WORK AND ON THE STUDY
  (17 December, 2007)

2007

• CHALLENGES OF OPINION RESEARCH BEFORE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
  Zenel Batagelj, Valicon (17 December, 2007)
• STATISTICAL METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY
  Assist. Prof. Gregor Sočan, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Department of psychology, Faculty of Arts (26 November, 2007)
• MEASUREMENT ERRORS AND THE RESPONSE PROCESS IN BUSINESS SURVEYS
  Mojca Bavdaž, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics (15 October, 2007)
• DECISION SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE: RESEARCH FINDINGS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASE SURVEILLANCE TOOLS
  Prof. Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle (10 July, 2007)
• ROUND TABLE ON THE REFORM OF THE GRADUATE STUDY IN STATISTICS
  (15 June, 2007)
• EVOLUTION OF NETWORKS - PROBABILISTIC INDUCTIVE CLASSES OF GRAPHS
  Natasa Kejzar, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences (24 May, 2007)
• INFLUENCE OF ORAL HEALTH ON SYSTEMIC HEALTH
  Prof. Timothy A. DeRouen, PhD, Comprehensive Center for Oral Health Research; School of Public Health & Community Medicine; School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle (23 April, 2007, at the Dental Clinic)
• THE CASA PIA STUDY OF THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF DENTAL AMALGAM IN CHILDREN
  Prof. Timothy A. DeRouen, PhD, Comprehensive Center for Oral Health Research; School of Public Health & Community Medicine; School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle (20 April, 2007, at the Dental Clinic)
• DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF RECURRENT EVENT DATA, WITH APPLICATION TO INFANT DIARRHOEA IN BRAZIL
  Prof. Robin Henderson, PhD, Newcastle University, School of Mathematics and Statistics (30 March, 2007)
• GOODNESS OF FIT IN REGRESSION MODELS FOR RELATIVE SURVIVAL
  Maja Pohar Perme, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (30 March, 2007, in the conference room of the Faculty of Medicine)
• VISUALISATION OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA USING CONVEX-HULL AND CONCORDANCE DIAGRAMS
  Gaj Vidmar, MSc, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (6 March, 2007, in the conference room of the Faculty of Medicine)
• (GENERALIZED) BLOCKMODELING OF VALUED NETWORKS
  Ales Ziberna, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences (13 February, 2007)
• DEMOGRAPHY - THE STUDY OF POPULATION
  Vojka Sircelj, PhD, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (18 January, 2007)

2006

• STUDYING ASSOCIATION OF CATEGORICAL VARIABLES WITH CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS
  Prof. Joze Rovan, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics (12 December, 2006)
• DOSE FINDING STUDIES IN CANCER
  Prof. John O'Quigley, PhD, Lancaster University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (6 November, 2006)
• COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS
  Prof. Blaz Zupan, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (24 October, 2006)
• APPLIED STATISTICS 2006 CONFERENCE
  (from 17 to 20 September, 2006, in Ribno)
• PROPOSALS FOR SAMPLE SIZE CALCULATION PROGRAMS
  doc.dr. Harald Heinzl, Medical University of Vienna, Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Section of Clinical Biometrics (13 June, 2006)
• NUMBER OF STEM CELLS REPOPULATING THE MARROW FOLLOWING TRANSPLANTATION
  Prof. John O'Quigley, PhD, Lancaster University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics (25 May, 2006)
• STATISTICAL METHODS FOR MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS: AN OVERVIEW WITH EXAMPLES FROM CANCER RESEARCH
  Lara Lusa, PhD, National Institute for the Study and Treatment of Tumors, FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM), Milan (24 April, 2006)
• TELECARE AND HOME HEALTH AT A DISTANCE - POLITICS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE UK AND IRELAND
  Malcolm Fisk, PhD, Insight Social Research Ltd., Newport, Wales (12 April, 2006, at the Faculty of Medicine)
• THE thorax.6 MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
  Tomaz Stupnik, MD, graduate student of statistics, Ljubljana Clinical Centre (28 March, 2006)
• PREDICTIVE CLUSTERING TREES WTH APPLICATIONS TO BIO[MEDICAL] INFORMATICS
  Prof. Saso Dzeroski, PhD, Jozef Stefan Institute, Department of Knowledge Technologies (22 February, 2006)
• GOODNESS OF FIT AND EXPLAINED VARIATION IN REGRESSION MODELS
  Prof. Janez Stare, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (24 January, 2006)

2005

• A CHECKLIST FOR AUTHORS: STATISTICAL PROBLEMS TO DOCUMENT AND TO AVOID
  Prof. Frank E. Harrell, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville (1 December, 2005)
• REGRESSION MODELING STRATEGIES WITH APPLICATION TO LOGISTIC REGRESSION COURSE
  by Prof. Frank E. Harrell, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville (from 28 November to 1 December, 2005)
• THE CANCER REGISTRY OF SLOVENIA
  Prof. Maja Primic Zakelj, PhD, Epidemiology and Cancer Registries, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana (22 November, 2005)
• STATISTICS WITH EXCEL COURSES
  by Gaj Vidmar, MSc, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (5 courses in 2005)
• ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION OF LARGE NETWORKS WITH THE PAJEK SOFTWARE
  Assist. Prof. Andrej Mrvar, Pdh, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences (4 October, 2005)
• APPLIED STATISTICS 2005 CONFERENCE
  (from 18 to 21 September, 2005, in Ribno)
• FEATURE SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION ON TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENT'S DATA
  Prof. Paul McCullagh, PhD, University of Ulster (14 June, 2005)
• VISUALIZATION, EXTRACTION AND REPRESENTATION TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
  Prof Sherrilynne Fuller, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle (6 June, 2005)
• RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN RELATIVE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
  Prof. Timo Hakulinen, PhD, Director, Finnish Cancer Registry (23 May, 2005)
• MODELS FOR COST ANALYSIS IN HEALTH CARE: A CRITICAL AND SELECTIVE REVIEW
  Prof. Dario Gregori, PhD, University of Torino, Department of Public Health and Microbiology (1 April, 2005)
• SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM OF MONOTONE LIKELIHOOD IN LOGISTIC AND COX REGRESSION MODELS - THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
  Prof. Georg Heinze, PhD, Medical University of Vienna, Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics (14 March, 2005)
• WHERE ARE OUR LEADING BRANDS ON THE MARKETS OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA?
  Zenel Batagelj, CATI Ltd., Ljubljana (22 February, 2005)
• DISCOVERING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN VARIABLES
  Aleks Jakulin, MSc, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science (20 January, 2005)

2004

• R in EXCEL, EXCEL IN R ... AND MORE
  Jaro Lajovic, MD, independent consultant (17 December, 2004)
• AN OVERVIEW OF SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND QUALITY CONTROL IN THE NATIONAL OFFICIAL STATISTICS SYSTEM
  Metka Zaletel, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (23 November, 2004)
• NETWORKS AND DATA ANALYSIS
  Prof. Vladimir Batagelj, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics; Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics (22 October, 2004)
• SOME UNDER-USED, BUT SIMPLE AND USEFUL, DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
  Prof. K. Larry Weldon, PhD, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (30 September, 2004, at the National Institute of Biology)
• APPLIED STATISTICS 2004 CONFERENCE
  (from 19 to 22 September, 2004, in Ljubljana)
• POPULATION-BASED CANCER SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
  Prof. Paul W. Dickman, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (22 June, 2004)
• COURSE ON STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WITH EXCEL
  by Gaj Vidmar, MSc, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (from 2 to 9 June, 2004)
• PRINCIPLES OF DATA VISUALISATION
  Gaj Vidmar, MSc, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (28 May, 2004)
• MARKOV CHAINS
  Prof. Mihael Perman, PhD, University of Ljubljana; Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics (16 April, 2004)
• SIMULATION MODEL OF RUBELLA - THE EFFECTS OF VACCINATION STRATEGIES
  Assist. Prof. Anamarija Jazbec, PhD, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry (19 March, 2004)
• INTRODUCTION TO DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES
  Prof. Nada Lavrac, PhD, Jozef Stefan Institute, Department of Knowledge Technologies (27 February, 2004)
• PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS AND FACTOR ANALYSIS - POSSIBILITIES FOR APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE
  Gregor Socan, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology (23 January, 2004)

2003

• PREDICTIVE ACCURACY AND EXPLAINED VARIATION
  Prof. Michael Schemper, PhD, Vienna University Medical School, Department of Medical Computer Sciences, Section of Clinical Biometrics (9 December, 2003)
• BASICS OF GEOSTATISTICS AND ITS APPLICATION IN CHARTING VARIOUS VARIABLES
  Damijana Kastelec, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Biotechnology (11 November, 2003)
• EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS (EDA)
  Assist. Prof. Andrej Blejec, PhD, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia (23 October, 2003)
• SOLUTIONS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS FROM PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS AND THE EM ALGORITHM
  Maja Pohar, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (23 September and 9 October, 2003)
• COURSE ON THE R STATISTICAL SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT
  by Andrej Blejec, PhD (from 29 September to 2 October, 2003)
• METHODOLOGY AND STATISTICS CONFERENCE
  (from 14 to 17 September, 2003, in Ljubljana)
• BROWNIAN MOTION
  Prof. John O'Quigley, PhD, University of California, San Diego, Department of Mathematics (13 June, 2003)
• RELATIVE SURVIVAL
  Prof. Janez Stare, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Informatics (22 May, 2003)