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Onderzoeksgroep: STATISTIEK
A Identiteit van de deelnemende onderzoekers
Aerts Marc, Alonso Ariel, Beunckens Caroline, Bijnens Luc, Bollaerts Kaatje, Braekers Roel,
Bruckers Liesbeth, Burzykowski Tomasz, Buyse Marc, Callaert Herman, Callaert Kris, Cortiñas
Abrahantes José, Creemers An, Duchateau Luc, Faes Christel, Gaddah Auguste, Geys Helena,
Lin Dan, Haldermans Philippe, Hens Niel, Jacobs Tom, Jansen Ivy, Janssen Paul, Kadankova
Tetyana, Kasim Adetayo, Laenen Annouschka, Lesaffre Emmanuel, Litière Saskia, Maringwa
John, Massonnet Goele, Mattiacci Maria Rosa, Molenberghs Geert, Namata Harriet, Pryseley
Assam Nkouibert, Qi Zhu, Renard Didier, Serroyen Jan, Shkedy Ziv, Sotto Cristina, Thijs
Herbert, Tibaldi Fabian, Tilahun Eshete Abel, Valkenborg Dirk, Vandersmissen Veerle, Van
Effelterre Thierry, Van Sanden Suzy, Van Steen Kristel, Veraverbeke Noël, Verbeke Geert,
Weyler Joost, Winters Bart, Wouters Kristien, Wouters Luc.
B Titel(s) van het (de) onderzoeksproject(en)
a. Mathematische statistiek
b. Biostatistiek
C Beschrijving van de ontwikkelde onderzoeksactiviteit(en) per project
- Research on statistical education (HC)
- Resampling methods (NV, PJ, Jan Swanepoel)
- Kernel estimators with reduced bias (NV, PJ, Jan Swanepoel)
- Relative hazard rate estimation for censored and left truncated data (NV, PJ, Ricardo Cao,
Elisa Molanes)
- Conditional mean and median residual life (NV)
- Quantiles under dependent censoring (NV)
- Weak convergence for copulas with covariates (NV)
- Goodness-of-fit for relative hazard (NV, Elisa Molanes)
- Bayes and empirical Bayes estimators (NV, Lichun Wang)
- Application of exit problems for Lévy processes in financial mathematics (TK, NV, Jasper
Anderluch)
- Weak convergence representation of the conditional Koziol-Green model under dependent
censoring (RB, AG, NV)
- Nonparametric estimation of the conditional distribution function in a mixture Koziol- Green
model under dependent censoring (RB, AG)
- Heteroscedastic regression model with dependency between error and covariate (RB, Ingrid
Van Keilegom)
- Modeling the proportion of bullets that pass through a bullet proof vest (RB, M.Bijvank, M.C.
Bramati, L. Mohammandi, F. Rigat, P. van de Ven, T. Kadankova, S. Anisov, A. Schaap)
- Analysis of microarray data: dose-response analysis, identification of biomarker genes and
normalization of cDNA microarrays with linear mixed models (ZS)
Modeling infectious diseases data: joint and univariate flexible modeling (ZS)
- Fitting frailty models via linear mixed models using model transformation (GMa, PJ, TB)
- Two-stage estimation in copula models: methodology, example and simulations (GMa, PJ,
Luc Duchateau)
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- Frailty models (PJ, Luc Duchateau)
- Frailty models versus copula models (PJ, Luc Duchateau, Klaartje Goethals)
- The choice of the frailty density: diagnostics, a simulation study (PJ, GMa, Luc Duchateau)
- Goodness-of-fit (for frailty models, for censored data) (PJ, NV, GMa, Jan Swanepoel, Luc
Duchateau)
- Validation of prognostic indices using the frailty model (PJ, Catherine Legrand, Richard
Sylvester, Luc Duchateau)
- Missing data and sensitivity analysis (GM, MA, HT, IJ, CB, CS, AC, Geert Verbeke, Dimitris
Rizopoulos, Sypridoula Tsonaka, Kristel Van Steen, Els Goetghebeur, Michael G. Kenward,
Stijn Vansteelandt)
- Missing data in clinical trials (GM, Michael G. Kenward, Raymond J. Carroll, Craig
Mallinckrodt, CB, IJ, CS)
- Pattern-mixed models (GM, HT, Michael G. Kenward, CB, IJ)
- Surrogate markers (GM, TB, HG, FT, JC, AA, ZS, Tony Vangeneugden, Didier Renard, AT, PA)
- Neuron synchronization (Carmen Cadarso, HG, GM, AA, CF)
- Logistic mixed models in item response theory (GM, Geert Verbeke, Paul De Boeck, Dirk
Smits, Edward Ip, Yuri Goegebeur)
- Models for discrete repeated measures (GM, Geert Verbeke)
- Small-sample degrees for freedom (GM, CF, Geert Verbeke, Michael G. Kenward)
- Methods for clustered data (MA, HG, CF, GM)
- Models for infectious diseases (MA, ZS, GM, NH)
- Methods for optimization in statistics (GM, Geert Verbeke, Iven Van Mechelen, Francis
Tuerlinckx)
- Psychometric methods in clinical studies (GM, AL, AA, Tony Vangeneugden)
- Modeling infectious diseases (MA, ZS, GM, CF, NH, JC, KB, HN, Pierre Van Damme, Philippe
Beutels, Heidi Theeten, Koen Van Herck, Frank Boelaert, Koen Mintiens, Stefan Roels, Dirk
Berkvens, Patrick Cras, Claude Saegerman, Peter Teunis en Jacco Wallinga)
- Microbioal risk assessment and food safety (MA, ZS, CF, JC, KB, HN, Koens Mintiens, Ides
Boone, Yves Van der Stede, Stefan Roels, Stefaan Ribbens, Jeroen Dewulf, Koen Grijspeerd,
Peter Teunis)
- Methods of the analysis of microrray data (TB, SV, DL, ZS)
- Methods of the analysis of proteomics data (TB, DV)
- Bootstrap for multivariate failure-time data (TB, GMa, PJ)
- Validation of surrogate endpoints in multiple randomized clinical trials (TB, PJ, Marc Buyse)
- Meta-analysis of clinical trials (TB, Marc Buyse)
- Modelling prevalence and force of infection on serological data (NH, MA, ZS, Nigel Gay, John
Edmunds)
- Infant vaccination coverage in 2005 and predictive factors for incomplete or invalid
vaccination in Flanders, Belgium: an EPI survey (NH, MA, Heidi Theeten, Pierre Van Damme,
Philip Beutels, Corinne Vandermeulen, Mathieu Roelants, Karel Hoppenbrouwers, Anne-Marie
Depoortere)
- Who mixes with who ? Analyzing contact data. (NH, MA, ZS, Polymod working group)
- The EM algorithm by the method of weights (NH, Kennedy Otwombe)
- The MAR-bodyguard for the shared parameter model: a nonparametric alternative to
weighted estimating equations under MAR (NH, AC, MA, GM)
- Model selection based on presmoothing (NH, MA, Jeff Simonoff)
- Model selection for incomplete and design-based samples (NH, MA, GM)
- The Receiver Operator Characteristic curve (NH, MA, Kostas Fokianos)
- Model selection (MA, NH, Jeffrey Simonoff)
- Missing data (MA, GM, HT, NH, IJ, AC, Geert Verbeke, Michael G. Kenward)
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- Mixed models (MA, GM, JS, Geert Verbeke)
- Medical diagnostic testing (MA, NH, Kostas Fokianos, Frank Buntinx)
- Use of historical data (MA, CF, JM, HG)
- Degrees of freedom approximation and effective sample size (CF, MA, GM)
- Model averaging in toxicology and microbial risk assessment (CF, MA, HN)
- Effect of clustering and missingness on the force of infection (CF, NH, MA)
- Joint modeling of discrete and continuous longitudinal endpoints (CF, MA, HG)
- Spatial epidemiology (CF)
- Semiparametric mixed models (CF, JM, ZS)
- Analysis of juvenile toxicity studies (CF, MA, HG)
- Classification of psychotropic drugs based on sleep-waking behaviour data. Spline models,
with a mixed effects formulation. Fractional polynomial models with random effects.
Supervised ans unsupervised learning analysis. Linear, flexible and mixture discriminant
analysis. Neural networks, support vector machine, classification and regression trees,
bagging, random forest and boosting methods (JC)
- Psychotropic drug classification based on sleep-waking behavior of rats. Fractional
polynomial mixed models and random spline models to model the irregular longitudinal
profiles of the rats. Linear non-parametric and flexible discriminant analysis for classification.
Model Averaging for linear discriminant analysis (KW, JC, GM)
- Modelling prevalence and force of infection on case notification and serological data (KB, MA,
ZS, NH, CF, Frank Boelaert)
- Ontwikkeling van een methodologie voor de kwantitatieve beoordeling van zonotische risico’s
toegepast op het model Salmonella bij varkens (KB, MA, ZS, George Daube, Lieven De
Zutter, Koen Grijspeerdt, Koen Mintiens)
- P-splines regression with shape contraints (KB, MA, Paul Eilers)
- Bioinformatics: significance analysis of microarrays, sequence alignment, hidden Markov
models, gene-pathway findings, proteomics, mass-spectrometry data (IJ, TB, DL, DV, QZ, N.
Kwasnikowska, K. Koch, J. Van Den Bussche, F. Neven)
- Flexible modeling of serial correlation in mixed-effects models (JS, GM)
- Discriminant analysis based on longitudinal profiles (JS, GM)
- Model averaging in microbial risk assessments (HN, MA, ZS, CF)
- Microbial risk assessment and food safety: risk factors for salmonella infection bases on data
in laying hens in Belgium (HN, MA, ZS, CF)
- Estimation of the force of infection for parvo-virus B19 from prevalence data using penalized
splines model (HN, MA, ZS, CF)
- Normalization of microarrays. Connection dose-response data and microarrays (PH, ZS, SV)
- Biomarker discovery from COFRADIC data: deconvolution and feature extraction for mass
spectral serum profiles (DV, TB)
- Monoisotopic peak validation using a Poisson approximation in a combined fractional
diagonal chromatography and mass spectrometry setting (DV, TB, PA)
- A new method for rapid screening of MALDI-TOF spectra of post-translational modifications
(DV, TB, IJ)
- Label-free quantitative proteomics (DV, TB, Jean-Paul Noben)
- The EM-algorithm for correcting sequencing errors of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression data
(DV, TB, PH)
- Assessing the global normalization assumption of Escheria coli cDNA micro-arrays (DV,
Kristof Engelen)
- Significance analysis of microarray (DL, ZS, TB, H.W.H. Göhlmann, An De Bondt, Tim Perera,
Tamara Geerts, Luc Bijnens)
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- Testing for trend and classification of trends in dose-response microarray experiments (DL,
ZS, Dani Yekutieli, TB, H.W.H. Göhlmann, A. De Bondt, Tim Perera, Tamara Geerts, Ilse Van
den Wijngaert, Luc Bijnens)
- Analysis of microarray data: simulation models, classification methods, gene selection
methods, biomarkers, analysis based on Laplace distribution (SV, DL)
- Surrogate markers (AA, GM, AT, PA)
- Statistical validation of rating scales (AA, AL, GM, Tony Vangeneugden, AT, PA)
- Maximum likelihood inference under misspecification (AA, SL, GM)
- Simulation study comparing weighted estimating equations with multiple imputation based
estimating equations for longitudinal binary data (CS, GM, CB)
- Every missing not at random model has got a missing at random bodyguard (CS, GM, CB,
Michael G. Kenward)
- Case study on missing data models for Slovenian Plebiscite (CS, GM, CB)
- Meaningful parametrization for missing data models (CS, GM, Geert Verbeke)
- Reliability estimation in clinical trial data with repeated measurements (AL, AA, GM, Tony
Vangeneugden)
- Minimal Psychiatric Data: development of a new registration instrument (AL, LB, GM)
- Long-stay patients in psychiatry (AL, LB)
- Registration in institutions for Sheltered Living in Limburg (AL)
- Attitudes toward jobs in youngsters (AL)
- Incomplete longitudinal data (CB, CS)
- Project Microsensus 2006 (Agora-project) (VV)
- Enquête Federale Politie. NOTESUMO-project (VV)
- Multiple imputatie gezondheidsenquête (VV)
- Nonlinear mixed effects modeling. IVIVC modeling (TJ, GM, A. Dunne, R. Straetemans)
- Psychiatric epidemiology (LB, GM, JS)
- Analyses for SPIL-RPL (Samenwerking Psychiatrische Initiatieven Limburg – Registratie
Project Limburg) (LB, GM, JS)
- Flexible modeling, smoothing longitudinal data, penalized splines, simultaneous confidence
intervals for penalized splines, historical controls, crossover designs (JM)
D Mededelingen van resultaten van het onderzoekswerk
1 Doctoraats- en aggregaatsthesissen
11 In de onderzoeksgroep behaalde doctoraten
12 (Co)promoties van doctoraten, niet behaald aan de UHasselt
13 Lidmaatschappen van jury's van buitenlandse doctoraten
Noël Veraverbeke
20 juni 2006. Universiteit Wageningen, Nederland. Jurylid voor Pravesh Debba. “Sampling
scheme optimization from hyperspectral data” (promotor: Alfred Stein)
Geert Molenberghs
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12 oktober 2006. Université Rennes 1, France. Jurylid voor Véronique Sebille.
Habilitation thesis. (promotor: Jean-Louis Auget)
Tomasz Burzykowski
25 januari 2006. Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, Nederland. Jurylid voor Laurence
Colette. “Prostate cancer: prognostic factors, markers of outcome and design of clinical
trials” (promotor: F.H. Schröder)
14 Lidmaatschappen van jury's van binnenlandse doctoraten
Geert Molenberghs
15 september 2006. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Jurylid voor Steffen Fieuws. "Mixed
models for multivariate longitudinal data" (promotor: Geert Verbeke)
Oktober 2006. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Jurylid voor Samuel Musili Mwalili.
“Bayesian and frequentist approaches to correct for misclassification error with
applications to caries research”. (promotor: Emmanuel Lesaffre)
Paul Janssen
22 mei 2006. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Jurylid voor Arnost Komárek. “Accelerated
failure time models for multivariate doubly-interval-censored data with flexible
distributional assumptions” (promotor: Emmanuel Lesaffre)
2 Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Internationale wetenschappelijke publicaties
20 Gepubliceerde artikels in internationale tijdschriften (opgenomen in de JCR1 of
in een door de Onderzoeksraad erkende alternatieve tijdschriftenlijst)
Wang, L. and Veraverbeke, N. (2006). Empirical likelihood in a semi-parametric model for
missing response data. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 35, 625-639.
Veraverbeke, N. (2006). Regression quantiles under dependent censoring. Statistics, 40, 117-
128.
Janssen, P., Swanepoel, J. and Veraverbeke, N. (2006). Modifying the kernel distribution
function estimator towards reduced bias. Statistics, 40, 000-000.
Wang, L. and Veraverbeke, N. (2006). Bayes prediction based on right censored data.
Statistical Papers, 00, 000-000. (electronically available at DO 10.1007/s00362-006-
0044-1)
Massonnet, G., Burzykowski, T., Janssen, P. (2006). Resampling plans for frailty models.
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 35, 497-514.
==============================================1 JCR : Journal Citation Reports (als afzonderlijke publicatie van de Science Citation Index en van de Social Sciences Citation Index, opgemaakt door het Institute for Scientific Information).
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Legrand, C., Duchateau, L., Sylvester, R., Janssen, P., van der Hage, J., van de Velde, C. and
Therasse, P. (2006). Heterogeneity in disease free survival between centers: lessons
learned from an EORTC early breast cancer trial. Clinical Trials, 3, 1-9.
Cortiñas Abrahantes, J., Legrand, C., Burzykowski, T., Janssen, P., Ducrocq, V. and
Duchateau, L.. (2006). Comparison of different estimation procedures for proportional
hazards model with random effect. Computational statistics and Data Analysis, 00, 000-
000. (doi 10.1016/j.csda.2006.03.009).
Mathei, C., Shkedy, Z., Denis, B., Kabali, C., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Van Damme, P. and
Buntinx, F. (2006). Evidence for a substantial role of sharing of injection paraphernalia
other than syringes/needles to the spread of hepatitis C among injecting drug users.
Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 00, 000-000.
Laenen, A., Vangeneugden, T., Geys, H. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). Generalized reliability
estimation using repeated measurements. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical
Psychology, 59, 113-131.
Molenberghs, G. (2006). Book Review of Fitzmaurice, G.M., Laird, N.M., and Ware, J.H.
(2005). Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis. Journal of American Statistical Association,
00, 000-000.
Vansteelandt, S., Goetghebeur, E., Kenward, M.G. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). Ignorance and
uncertainty regions as inferential tools in a sensitivity analysis. Statistica Sinica, 16, 953-
979.
Ombelet, W., Martens, G., De Sutter, P., Gerris, J., Bosmans, E., Ruyssinck, G., Defoort, P.,
Molenberghs, G. and Gyselaers, W. (2006). Perinatal outcome of 12,021 singleton and
3,108 twin births after non-IVF assisted reproduction: a cohort study. Human
Reproduction, 21, 1025-1032.
Jansen, I., Hens, N., Molenberghs, G., Aerts, M., Verbeke, G. and Kenward, M.G. (2006). The
nature of sensitivity in missing not at random models. Computational Statistics and Data
Analysis, 50, 830-858.
Shkedy, Z., Aerts, M., Molenberghs, G., Beutels, P. and Van Damme, P. (2006). Modelling
age-dependent force of infection from prevalence data using fractional polynomials.
Statistics in Medicine, 25, 1577-1591.
Jansen, I., Beunckens, C., Molenberghs, G., Verbeke, G. and Mallinckrodt, C. (2006).
Analyzing incomplete discrete longitudinal clinical trial data. Statistical Science, 21, 52-
69.
Jansen, I., Van den Troost, A., Molenberghs, G., Vermulst, A. and Gerris, J. (2006). Modeling
partially incomplete marital satisfaction data. Sociological Methods & Research, 35, 113-
136.
Vandenbroeck, P., Wouters, L., Molenberghs, G., Van Gestel, J. and Bijnens, L. (2006).
Teaching statistical thinking to life scientists - A case-based approach. Journal of
Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 16, 61-75.
Faes, C., Geys, H., Aerts, M. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). A hierarchical modeling approach
for risk assessment in developmental toxicity studies. Computational Statistics and Data
Analysis, 51, 1848-1861.
Speybroeck, N., Marcotty, T., Aerts, M., Dolan, T., Williams, B., Lauer, J., Molenberghs, G.,
Burzykowski, T., Mulumba, M. and Berkvens, D. (2006). Titrating Theileria parva: single
stocks against combination of stocks. International Journal for Parasitology, 00, 000-000.
Hens, N., Aerts, M. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). Model selection for incomplete and design-
based samples. Statistics in Medicine, 25, 2505-2520.
Alonso, A., Geys, H., Molenberghs, G. (2006). A unifying approach for surrogate marker
validation based on Prentice's criteria. Statistics in Medicine, 25, 205-221.
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Cadarso-Suárez, C., Roca-Paradiñas, J., Molenberghs, G., Faes, C., Nácher, V., Ojeda, S. and
Acuña, C. (2006). Flexible modeling of neuron firing rates across different experimental
conditions: an application to neural activity in the prefrontal cortex during a
discriminating task. Applied Statistics, 55, 431-447.
Molenberghs, G. and Verbeke, G. (2006). The Diggle-Kenward model for dropout.
Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics, 000-000.
Molenberghs, G. (2006). Viewpoint: Biometry and Biometrics. Sensor Review, 26, 5-6.
Tibaldi, F., Verbeke, G., Molenberghs, G., Renaerd, D., Van den Noortgate, W. and De Boeck,
P. (2006). Conditional mixed models with crossed-random effects. British Journal of
Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 00, 000-000.
Aelvoet, W., Vanoverloop, J., Molenberghs, G., Schoeters, G., van Sprundel, M. and Vlietinck,
B. (2006). Routineley collected data to assess reproductive health in a community around
two household refuse incinerators. Archives of Public Health, 00, 000-000.
Van Sanden, S., Wouters, L., Burzykowski, T., Molenberghs, G., Van Remoortere, M., Meert,
T. and Bijnens, L. (2006). A modelling approach to the analysis of nerve regenerative
experiments. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 16, 843-859.
Goegebeur, Y., De Boeck, P., Molenberghs, G. and del Pino, G. (2006). A local-influence-based
diagnostic approach to a speeded item response theory model. Applied Statistics, 55,
647-676.
Alonso, A. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). Surrogate marker evaluation from a information
theoretic perspective. Biometrics, 00, 000-000.
Shen, S., Beunckens, C., Mallinckrodt, C. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). A local influence
sensitivity analysis for incomplete longitudinal depression data. Journal of
Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 16, 365-384.
Mallinckrodt, C.H., Detke, M.J., Kaiser, C.J., Watkin, J.G., Molenberghs, G. and Carroll, R.J.
(2006). Comparing onset of antidepressant action using a repeated measures approach
and a traditional assessment schedule. Statistics in Medicine, 25, 2384-2397.
Faes, C., Aerts, M., Geys, H. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). Model averaging using fractional
polynomials to estimate a safe level of exposure. Risk Analysis, 00, 000-000.
Molenberghs, G. and Verbeke, G. (2006). Likelihood ratio, score, and Wald tests in a
constrained parameter space. The American Statistician, 00, 000-000.
Van Steen, K., Laird, N.M., Markel, P. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). Approaches to handle
incomplete data in family-based association testing. Annals of Human Genetics, 00, 000-
000.
Molenberghs, G., Vangeneugden, T. and Laenen, A. (2006). Estimating reliability and
generalizability from hierarchical biomedical data. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics,
00, 000-000.
Beunckens, C., Molenberghs, G., Thijs, H. and Verbeke, G. (2006). Incomplete hierarchical
data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 00, 000-000.
Fieuws, S., Verbeke, G. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). Random-effects models for multivariate
repeated measures. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 00, 000-000.
Litière, S., Alonso, A. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). Tuype I and type II error random-efects
misspecification in generalized linear mixed models. Biometrics, 00, 000-000.
Alonso, A., Molenberghs. G., Burzykowski, T., Renard, D., Geys, H., Shkedy, Z., Tibaldi, F.,
Cortiñas Abrahantes, J. and Buyse, M. (2006). Response to "Qu and Case's Letter about
'Prentice's approach and the meta-analytic paradigm: a reflection on the role of statistics
in the evaluation of surrogate endpoints' (Biometrics, 60, 724-728)" . Biometrics, 00,
000-000.
Molenberghs, G. and Verbeke, G. (2006). Discussion of Lee, Y. and Nelder, J.A.: "Double
hierarchical generalized linear models," Applied Statistics, 00, 000-000.
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Molenberghs, G. and Verbeke, G. (2006). Discussion of Lee, Y. and Nelder, J.A.: Likelihood for
random-effect models," Sort, 29, 000-000.
Laenen, A., Bruckers, L., Goossens, M., Houben, L. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). Wachttijden
in de CGG onderzocht. Acta Hosptalia, 00, 000-000.
Jansen, I. and Molenberghs, G. (2006). A flexible marginal modeling strategy for non-
monotone missing data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 00, 000-000.
Thijssen, S., Maringwa, J., Faes, C., Lambrichts, I. and Van Kerkhove, E. (2007). Chronic
exposure of mice to environmentally relevant, low doses of cadmium leads to early renal
damage, not predicted by blood or urine cadmium levels. Toxicology 229, 145-156.
Vanderlocht, J., Burzykowski, T., Somers, V., Hellings, N. (2006). No association of leukemia
inhibitory factor (LIF) DNA polymorphisms with multiple scleroris. Journal of
Neuroimmunology, 171, 189-192.
Collette, L., Burzykowski, T., Schröder, F.H. (2006). Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) alone is
not an appropriate marker of long term therapeutic benefit in prostate cander trials.
European Journal of Cancer, 42, 1344-1350.
Burzykowski, T., Buyse, M. (2006). Surrogate threshold effect: An alternative measure for
meta-analytic surrogate endpoint validation. Pharmaceutical Statistics, 5, 173-186.
Glick, I.D., Shkedy, Z., Schreiner, A. (2006). Differential early onset of therapeutic response
with risperidone vs conventional antipsychotics in patients with chronic schizophrenia.
International Clinical Psychoparmacology, 21, 261-266.
Beutels, P., Shkedy, Z., Aerts, M., van Damme, P. (2006). Social mixing patterns for
transmission models of close contact infections: exploring self-evaluation and diary-based
data collection through a web-based interface. Epidemiology and infection. - (doi:
10.1017/S0950268806006418).
Faes, C., Aerts, M., Geys, H., Bijnens, L., Lammers, W. (2006). General mixed-model
framework for modelling correlated categorical data. Analysis of spike train in intestine of
a cat. Statistical Modeling, 6, 1-21.
Faes, C., Hens, N., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Geys, H., Mintiens, K., Laevens, H. and Boelaert, F.
(2006). Random-effects models for clustered binary data using monotone fractional
polynomials; with application to the estimation of a herd-specific force of infection.
Applied Statistics, 55, 595-613.
Van den Bruel, A., Aertgeerts, B., Bruyninckx, R., Aerts, M. and Buntinx, F. (2006). Signs and
symptoms for the diagnosis of serious infections in children: a prospective study in
primary care. British Journal of General Practics, 00, 000-000.
Bollaerts, K., Eilers, P.H.C. and Aerts, M. (2006). Quantile regression with monotonicity
restrictions using P-splines and the L1-norm. Statistical Modelling, 6, 189-207.
Bollaerts, K., Eilers, P., Van Mechelen, I. (2006) "Simple and multiple P-splines regression
with shape constraints." British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 59,
451-496.
Van Sanden, S., Lin, D., Burzykowski, T. (2006). Performance of classification methods in a
microarray setting: a simulation study. Biocybernetics and Bioengineering, 000-000.
Chen, L., Geys, H., Cawthraw, S., Havelaar, A. and Teunis, P. (2006). Dose response for
infectivity of several strains of Campylobacter jejuni in chickens. Risk analysis, 00, 000-
000.
Wouters, K., Ahnaou, A., Cortiñas, J., Molenberghs, G., Geys, H., Bijnens, L. and Drinkenburg,
W.H.I.M., (2006). Psychotropic drug classification based on sleep wake behaviour of rats.
Applied Statistics, 00, 000-000.
Vandenhove, H., Van Hees, M., Wouters, K. and Wannijn, J. (2006). Can we predict uranium
bioavailability based on sail parameters ? Part 1: Effect of soil parameters on soil solution
uranium concentration. Environmental Pollution, 00, 000-000.
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Vandenhove, H., Van Hees, M., Wouters, K. and Wannijn, J. (2006). Can we predict uranium
bioavailability based on sail parameters ? Part 2: Soil solution uranium concentration is
not a good bioavailability index. Environmental Pollution, 00, 000-000.
Beersmans, S., Muys, J., Van Beurden, A., Vidakovic, M., Weyler, J., Thijs, H., Rodrigus, I.
and Bossaert, L. (2006). Are the current tools for assessing the quality of life after cardiac
arrest valid. Resuscitation, 69, 1-37.
Rafter. J., Bennett, M., Caderni, G., Clune, Y., Hughes, R., Karlsson, P.C., Klinder, A.,
O'Riordan, M., O'Sullivan, G.C., Pool-Zobel, B., Rechkemmer, G., Roller, M., Rowland, I.,
Salvadori, M., Thijs, H., Van Loo, J., Watzl, B. and Collins, J.K. (2006). Dietary synbiotic
reduces cander risk factors in polypectomised and colon cancer patients. The American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 00, 000-000.
Robaeys, G., Van Vlierberghs, H., Mathei, C., Van Ranst, M., Bruckers, L., Buntinx, F. (2006).
Similar compliance and effect of treatment in chronic hepatitis C resulting from
intravenous drug use in comparison with other infection cause. European Journal of
Gastroenterology & Hepathology, 18, 159-166.
Tournigand, C., Cervantes, A., Figer, A., Lledo, G., Flesh, M., Buyse, M., Mineur, L., Carola, E.,
Etienne, P.L., Rivera, F., Chirivella, I., Perez-Staub, N., Louvet, C., André, T., Tabah-
Fisch, I., de Gramont, A. (2006). FOLFOX4 or FOLOFOX7 with oxaliplatin stop-and-go in
advanced colorectal cancer. Optimox1, a randomized GERCOR study. Journal Clinical
Oncology. 24, 394-400.
Glynn-Jones, R., Mawdsley, S., Pearce, T., Buyse, M. (2006). Alternative clinical end points in
rectal cancer - are we getting closer ? Annals Oncology, 17, 1239-1348.
André, T., Sargent, D., Tabernero, J., O'Connell, M., Buyse, M., Sobrero, A., Misset, J.L., Boni,
C., Vanhoeffer, U., de Gramont, A. (2006). Current issues in adjuvant traetment of stage
II colon cancer. Annals Surgical Oncology. 13, 887-898.
Fieuws, S. and Verbeke, G. (2006). Pairwise fitting of mixed models for the joint modelling of
multivariate longitudinal profiles. Biometrics, 62, 424-431.
Fieuws, S., Verbeke, G., Boen, F. and Delecluse, C. (2006). High dimensional multivariate
mixed models for binary questionnaire data. Applied Statistics, 55, 449-460.
Tuerlinckx, F., Rijmen, F., Verbeke, G. and De Boeck, P. (2006). Statistical inference in
generalised linear mixed models: a review. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical
Psychology, 59, 225-255.
Hoflack, G., Opsomer, G., Van Soom, A., Maes, D., de Kruif, A., Duchateau, L. (2006).
Comparison of sperm quality of Belgian Bleu and Holstein Friesian bulls. Theriogenology
66, 1834-1846.
Hellemans, A., Decostere, A., Duchateau, L., De Bock, M., Haesebrouck, F., Ducatelle, R.
(2006). Protective immunization against "Candidatus Helicobacter suis" with heterologous
antigens of H. pylori and H. felis. Vaccine 24, 2469-2476.
Hoflack, G., Van Soom, A., de Kruif, A., Opsomer, G., Duchateau, L. (2006). Breeding
soundness and libido examination of Belgian Bleu and Holstein Friesian artificial
insemination bulls in Belgium and The Netherlands. Theriogenology 66, 207-216.
Verbeke, G., Fieuws, S., Lesaffre, E., Kato, B.S., Foreman, M.D., Broos, P.L.O. and Milisen, K.
(2006). A comparison of procedures to correct the baseline differences in the analysis of
continuous longitudinal data: a case study. Applied Statistics, 55, 92-101.
Küchenhoff, A., Mwalili, S.M., Lesaffre, E. (2006). A general method for dealing with
misclassificaton in regression: the misclassification SIMEX. Biometrics, 62, 85-96.
Vrijens, B., Belmans, A., Matthys, K., De Klerk, E. and Lesaffre, E. (2006). Effect of patient
intervention and compliance-enhancing pharmaceutical care on adherence with
Atorvastatin. Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety, 15, 115-121.
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Overige wetenschappelijke publicaties
25 Overige artikels
- Veraverbeke, N. (2006). De Belgische Vereniging voor Statistiek. STAtOR 7, 26-27.
- Shkedy, Z., Aerts, M., and Callaert, H. (2006). The weight of Euro coins: its distribution
might not be as normal as you would expect. Journal of Statistics Education Volume 14,
Number 2 [e-journal: www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v14n2].
26 Artikels in proceedings
- Veraverbeke, N. (2006). Nonparametric estimation problems under dependent
censoring. In: A collection of papers on the 50th anniversary of the department.
Technical Report nr. 365, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, pp.
89-100.
- Kadankova, T.V. and Veraverbeke, N. (2006). Several two-boundary problems for Lévy
processes. Proceedings of the 4th Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Day. Ed A. De
Schepper et al. KVAB, Brussel, pp. 97-106. (D/2006/0455/20)
- Litière, S., Alonso, A., Molenberghs, G. (2006). Type I and Type II error under random-
effects misspecification in generalized linear mixed models. Proceedings of the 23rd
Internation Biometric Conference. Montréal, Québec – Canada, July 16-21, 2006.
- Alonso, A., Molenberghs, G. (2006). Surrogate marker validation from an information
theory perspective. Proceedings of ENAR, Tampa.
- Laenen, A., Alonso, A., Molenberghs, G. (2006). A measure for the reliability of a rating
scale based on longitudinal clinical trial data. Proceedings of the 23rd International
Biometric Conference. Montréal, Québec – Canada, July 16-21, 2006.
- Bijvank, M., Bramati, M.C., Mohammadi, L., Rigat, P., van de Ven, R., Braekers, R.,
Kadankova, T., Anisov, A. (2006). Bullet Proof Math: “Modeling the proportion of bullets
that pass through the vest”. Proceedings of the 55th European Study Group,
Mathematics with Industry. T.U.Eindhoven, pp. 25-50.
- Maringwa, J.T., Geys, H., Shkedy, Z., Faes, C., Molenberhgs, G., Aerts, M., Van Ammel,
K., Teisman, A. and Bijnens, L. (2006). Analysis of a cardiovascular safety experiment
with longitudinal data using penalized splines. Proceedings of the 21st International
Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Hinde, J., Einbeck, J. and Newell, J. (Eds.), Galway,
Ireland, pp. 346-353.
- Aerts, M., Bollaerts, K., Hens, N., Shkedy, Z., Van Damme, P. and Beutels, P. (2006).
Estimating the force of infection directly from antibody levels. Proceedings of the
International Conference on Statistical Latent Variables Models in the Health Sciences,
Perugia, Italy.
- Faes, C. (2006). Correcting for model uncertainty when using fractional polynomials to
estimate a safe level of exposure. Proceedings of the 23rd International Biometric
Conference. Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 16- 21, 2006.
- Hens, N., Aerts, M., Shkedy, Z., Van Damme, P. and Beutels, P. (2006). Flexible
bivariate modelling of serological data. Proceedings of the 23rd International Biometric
Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.
- Vyt, P., Maes, D., Quinten, C., Aerts, M., Rijsselaere, T., Deley, T., Van Soom, A.
(2006). Predictive value of sperm motility characteristics and morphology on
reproductive perfomance in sows. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Flemish
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, 2006, Ghent, Belgium. R. Geers
and J. Vandenheede (eds.) pp. 83-86. (ISBN: 90-5864-103-1).
- Bollaerts, K., Aerts, M., Ribbens, S., de Sadeleer, L., Mintiens, K. and Boone, I. (2006).
Identification of Salmonella risk factors in pig farms. Proceedings of the 14th Annual
Meeting of the Flemish Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, 2006,
Ghent, Belgium, R. Geers and J. Vandenheede (eds.) pp. 37-40. (ISBN: 90-5864-103-1)
- Cortiñas Abrahantes, J., Wanyama, S.S., Mintiens, K., Geys, H., van Everbroeck, B.,
Cras, P., Berkvens, D., Saegerman, C., Roels, S. and Aerts, M. (2006). Statistical
analysis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy data in Belgium. Proceedings of the 11th
International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, 2006. Cairns,
Australia, pp. 594-598. (ISSN: 1177-3618)
- Namata, H., Aerts, M., Faes, C. and Mintiens, K. (2006). Risk factor identification of
Salmonella for layer chicken in Belgium. In: Proceedings of the 11th International
Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economcs, 2006, Cairns, Australia. 3
pages. (ISSN: 1177-3618)
- Massonnet, G., Janssen, P., Burzykowski, T. (2006). Fitting frailty models via linear
mixed models using model transformation. Proceedings of the International Conference
on Statistical Methods for Biomedical and Technical Systems, Limassol, Cyprus, Ed. Filia
Vonta, pp. 387-391. (ISBN: 9963-644-53-8).
- Bollaerts, K., Aerts, M., Faes, C., Hens, N. and Boelaert, F. (2006). Modelling the force
of infection of the bovine herpesvirus-1 in Belgian cattle: a Bayesian approach to
account for test misclassification. Proceedings of the International Conference on
Statistical Latent Variables Models in the Health Sciences. Perugia, Italy.
27 Uitgaven van publicaties of proceedings als editor
- Beirlant, J., Carbonez, A., Schoutens, W., Van Assche, W. and Veraverbeke, N., (2006).
(editors) Special issue. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 186, 1-324.
28 Uitgaven van wetenschappelijke boeken
3 Congressen en voordrachten
31 Organisatie van internationale wetenschappelijke congressen of zomerschool
One-day Symposium "Multiple Comparison and False Discovery Rates", Holiday Inn Hotel,
Hasselt, 11 mei 2006.
Organisatie: Censtat
Statistics Afternoon, Universiteit Hasselt, 12 mei 2006.
Organisatie: Censtat
Workshop on “Survival Analysis”, Universiteit Hasselt, 19 mei 2006.
Organisatie: Noël Veraverbeke en P. Janssen (UHasselt) en Ingrid Van Keilegom (UCL)
57 deelnemers
QMSS Workshop (Quantitative Methods in Sociological Sciences), Universiteit Hasselt.
13-20 september 2006.
Organisatie: UHasselt en Universiteit van Southampton, U.K.
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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XXXIIIrd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
16-21 juli 2006.
Organiserend voorzitter: Geert Molenberghs
32 Voordrachten op internationale wetenschappelijke congressen
Noël Veraverbeke
20-25 augustus 2006. Prague Stochastics, Praag, Tsjechische Republiek.
Residual lifetime under dependent censoring (21 augustus 2006)
Geert Molenberghs
26-29 maart 2006. Eastern Spring Meeting of the Eastern North American Region, Tampa,
Florida, U.S.A.
Models for repeated discrete data.
(26 maart 2006)
26-29 maart 2006. Eastern Spring Meeting of the Eastern North American Region, Tampa,
Florida, U.S.A.
Round table discussion leader on 'Incomplete Data in Longitudinal Studies'.
(27 maart 2006)
7 augustus 2006. Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, Mn, U.S.A.
Analysis of clinical trials: theory and applications.
6-10 augustus 2006. Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, Wa, U.S.A.
Models for repeated discrete data.
(8 augustus 2006)
6-8 september 2006. International Conference on statistical latent variable models in the
health sciences, Perugia, Italië.
A latent-variable mixture model as a basis for sensitivity analysis in incomplete
longitudinal data.
(7 september 2006)
13-21 september 2006. QMSS Workshop on Theory and Practice in the Analysis of
Longitudinal Data. Universiteit Hasselt.
Quantitative methods in the social sciences network.
13-21 september 2006. QMSS Workshop on Theory and Practice in the Analysis of
Longitudinal Data. Universteit Hasselt.
Multivariate on-sided tests in constrained parameters spaces.
(20 september 2006)
27-29 september 2006. FDA/Industry Statistics Workshop, Washington, D.C.
The statistical evaluation of surrogate endpoints in clinical trials.
(27 september 2006)
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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27-29 september 2006. FDA/Industry Statistics Workshop, Washington, D.C.
Roundtable discussion leader on 'Incomplete data in longitudinal clinical trials'.
(28 september 2006)
27-29 september 2006. FDA/Industry Statistics Workshop, Washington, D.C.
Development in the statistical evaluation of surrogate endpoints in clinical trials.
(28 september 2006)
Marc Aerts
13 juni 2006. Pfizer Statistics Conference, Sandwich.
Topics in close response modelling and clustered binary data.
6-8 september 2006. International Conference on statistical latent variables models in the
health science, Perugia, Italy.
Estimating the force of infection directly from antibody levels.
11-15 september 2006. Royal Statistical Society 2006 Conference, Belfast.
Flexible bivariate modelling of serological data.
Tomasz Burzykowski
27 februari 2006. Conference Phase III Clinical Trials in Oncology: from design to
approval, Amsterdam, NL.
Evaluating the use of bimarkers as surrogate endpoints.
26-29 maart 2006. ENAR Spring Meeting, Tampa, U.S.A.
Recent advances in surrogate endpoint evaluation.
16-21 juli 2006. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Poisson approximation based monoisotipec peak finding in COFRADIC setting.
11-14 septmber 2006. 36th International Biometrical Colloquium, Olsztyn, Poland.
Meta-analysis: why and how ?
Ziv Shkedy
16-21 juli 2006. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Testing and evaluation of gene expression data as surrogate biomarkers in pre-clinical
experiments.
26-28 september 2006. Non-clinical statistics conference, Postdam, Germany.
Testing and evaluation of gene-expression data as surrogate biomarkers in pre-clinical
experiments.
Roel Braekers
30 januari - 3 februari 2006. 55th European Study Group, Mathematics with Industry (SWI
2006), Eindhoven, NL.
Bullet proof math.
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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24-28 juli 2006. 26th European Meeting of Statisticians, Torun, Poland.
A conditional Koziol-Green model under dependent censoring.
Christel Faes
16-21 juli 2006. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Correcting for model uncertainty when using fractional polynomials to estimate a safe
level of exposure.
José Cortiñas
26-29 maart 2006. Eastern Spring Meeting of the Eastern North American Region, Tampa,
Florida, U.S.A.
Calissification of psychotropic drugs based on sleep-waking behaviour in rats.
5-11 augustus 2006. 11th Symposium of the International Society for Veterinary
Epidemiology and Economics. Cairns, Australia.
Statistical analysis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy data in Belgium.
Ariel Alonso
26-29 maart 2006. ENAR Meeting, Tampa, U.S.A.
Surrogate marker velidation from an information theory perpective.
16-21 juli 2006. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Surrogate marker validation: an information theory perspective.
Oktober 2006. BDS Conference, Glaxo Smith Kline, London, U.K.
From the Prentice's approach to the meta-analytic paradigm: an overview about the
surrogate marker evaluation.
Oktober 2006. Conference on surrogate endpoints, French Statistical Society, Paris,
France.
From the Prentice's approach to the meta-analytic paradigm: an overview about the
surrogate marker evaluation.
29 november - 1 december 2006. EUFEPS Conference on Optimising Drug Development,
Basel, Switzerland.
An overview about surrogate marker evaluation.
Tetyana Kadankova
30 januari - 3 februari 2006. 55th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry
(SWI2006), Eindhoven, NL.
Bullet Proof Math
17 - 21 juli 2006. 31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and its Applications, Paris,
France.
Two-sides exit problems for general Lévy processes.
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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Dan Lin
26 - 28 september. Non-clinical statistics conference, Potsdam, Germany.
Significance Analysis of Microarrays (SAM) for biomarker selection using gene expression
data (27 september 2006).
Annouschka Laenen
16 - 21 juli 2006. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
A measure for the reliability of a rating scale based on longitudinal clinical trial data.
13 - 21 september 2006. Universiteit Hasselt.
QMSS Workshop on Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data.
A measure fot the reliability of a rating scale based on longitudinal clinical trial data.
Saskia Litière
16 - 21 juli 2006. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Type I and type II error under random-effects misspecification in generalized linear mixed
models.
13 - 21 september 2006. Universiteit Hasselt.
QMSS Workshop on Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data.
The impact of a misspecified random-effects distribution on maximum likelihood
estimation in generalized linear mixed models.
Niel Hens
16-21 juli 2006. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Flexible bivariate modelling of serological data.
13-21 september 2006. Universiteit Hasselt.
QMSS Workshop on Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data.
Kernel weighted influence measures.
Cristina Sotto
13 - 21 september 2006. Universiteit Hasselt.
QMSS Workshop on Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data.
A simulation study comparing weighted estimating equations and multiple imputation
based estimating equations (20 september 2006).
Goele Massonnet
29 - 31 mei 2006. Limassol, Cyprus. Statistical Models for Biomedical and Technical
systems.
Fitting frailty models via linear mixed models using model transformation
Ivy Jansen
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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13 - 21 september 2006. Universiteit Hasselt.
QMSS Workshop on Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Longitudunal Data.
Models for longitudinal and incomplete data.
Jan Serroyen
26 - 29 maart 2006. ENAR Meeting, Tampa, U.S.A.
Signal intensity processing based on non-linear mixed modeling to study changes in
neuronal activity.
Harriet Namata
6 - 11 augustus 2006. International Symposium on veterinary epidemiology and
economics (ISVEEXI), Cairns, Australia.
Risk factor Identification of Salmonella for layer chicken in Belgium.
Caroline Beunckens
26 - 29 maart 2006. ENAR Meeting, Tampa, U.S.A.
A latent class mixture model for dealing with incomplete longitudinal data.
Tom Jacobs
6 - 8 maart 2006. 18th Annual Drug Information Association Euro Meeting 2006, Paris,
France.
The use of IVIVC in pharmaceutical research.
26 - 28 september 2006. Non-Clinical Statistics Conference, Potsdam, Duitsland.
Modelling in vivo - in vitro correlation data of a heterogeneous formulation using a
mixture of distribution.
Herbert Thijs
16 - 21 juli 2006. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Issues in dealing with incomplete longitudinal data using selection models.
13 - 21 september 2006. Universiteit Hasselt.
QMSS Workshop on Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data.
Sensitivity analysis for longitudinal clinical trials.
Liesbeth Bruckers
16 - 21 juli 2006. 23rd International Biometric Conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Persistent disturbing behavior: clustering longitidunal profiles.
15 december 2006. International Symposium: Synthesising Research results of the
Flemish Center of expertise for environment and health. Brussel.
Statistical methodology of guidelines for analysis.
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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John Maringwa
3-7 juli 2006. 21st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Galway, Ireland.
Analysis of a cardiovascular experiment with longitudinal data using penalized smoothing
splines.
(awarded 4th best student presentation).
33 Voordrachten in het buitenland op uitnodiging van instellingen of organisaties
Noël Veraverbeke
13 oktober 2006. University of the Free State. Bloemfontein, Zuid Afrika.
Nonparametric estimation problems under dependent censoring.
Geert Molenberghs
27 januari 2006. Glaxo Smith Kline, Harlow, U.K.
Evaluation of surrogate endpoints in randomized clinical trials.
2 februari 2006. Mc Gill University, Montréal, Canada.
Multivariate one-sided tests in constrained parameter spaces.
8 - 10 februari 2006. Erasmus Winter Programme 2005, Erasmus Medical Center,
Rotterdam, NL.
Missing values in clinical research.
23 - 24 maart 2006. Forest Research Institute, New Jersey.
Longitudinal data, mixed models and incomplete data.
30 maart 2006. Centers for Desease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Models for repeated continuous, discrete, and incomplete data.
31 mei - 3 juni 2006. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Longitudinal and incomplete data.
31 mei - 3 juni 2006. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
The applied statistical scientist in a high-profile academic environment.
14 - 15 juni 2006. Graduate Program in Statistics, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Incomplete data.
4 oktober 2006. Tilburg University, NL.
Multivariate one-sided tests in constrained parameter spaces.
18 - 19 oktober 2006. RIVM, Bilthoven, NL.
Longitudinal and incomplete data.
9 - 10 november 2006. University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Incomplete data.
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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13 - 17 november 2006. ESALQ, Piracicaba, Saõ Paulo, Brazilië.
ESALQ Course on models for longitudinal and incomplete data.
20 - 21 november 2006. Universiteit Leiden, NL.
Longitudinal and incomplete data.
11 - 12 december 2006. Société Française de Statistique, Toulouse, Frankrijk.
Missing data, particularly in longitudinal studies.
Tomasz Burzykowski
20 maart 2006. Erasmus Medisch Centrum, Rotterdam, NL.
Statistical validation of surrogate endpoints in clinical trials.
Christel Faes
21 september 2006. Bijeenkomst 'Clusters van Kanker' van de Contactgroep Gezondheid
en Chemie, en de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Milieukunde, Den Bosch, NL.
Geografische verschillen in kankerincidentie in Belgisch Limburg.
Niel Hens
11 mei 2006. Health Protection Agency, London, UK.
Modelling age-time dependent incidence rates of hepatitis B and estimating the
prevalence and force of infection using generalized additive models.
16 mei 2006. Health Protection Agency, London, UK.
Joint modelling of serological data: dependence and frailties.
18 mei 2006. Polymod meeting, Pisa, Italy.
Joint modelling of serological data: dependence and frailties.
24 oktober 2006. Polymod meeting, Bielefeld, Germany.
Flexible modelling of multivariate serological data.
Goele Massonnet
26 juli 2006. North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa;
Resampling plans for frailty models.
31 juli 2006. University of the Free State Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Resampling plans for frailty models.
3 augustus 2006. University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Resampling plans for frailty models.
Herbert Thijs
11 oktober 2006. ISOQOL Workshop, Lissabon, Portugal.
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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Dealing with incomplete longitudinal data.
34 Presentatie van posters op internationale wetenschappelijke congressen
Dirk Valkenborg
2-5 april 2006. Tenth annual international conference on research in computational
molecular biology. RECOMB 2006. Venice, Italy.
Monoisotopic peak validation using a Poisson approximation in a combined fracitonal
diagonal chromatography and mass spectrometry setting.
2-5 april 2006. Tenth annual international conference on research in computational
molecular biology. RECOMB 2006. Venice, Italy.
An algorithm to process and to analyse COFRADIC data.
John Maringwa
september 2006. JNJ Joint Statistical Meetings, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Analysis of crossover designs using semiparametrics mixed models with serial correlations
within periods.
Abel Tilahun
september 2006. JNJ Joint Statistical Meetings, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Review of statistical methods for the analysis of repeatedly measured EEG data.
Philippe Haldermans
2-5 april 2006. Tenth annual international conference on research in computational
molecular biology. RECOMB 2006. Venice, Italy.
Using linear mixed models as scatterplot smoother for normalization of cDNA microarrays.
Kaatje Bollaerts
6-8 september 2006. International conference on statistical latent variables models in the
health sciences, Perugia, Italy.
Modelling the force on infection of the bovine herpesvirus - 1 in Belgian cattle: a Bayesian
approach to account for test misclassification.
4 Expert- en referee-opdrachten
41 Lidmaatschappen van editorial board van internationale tijdschriften
Noël Veraverbeke
National correspondent voor International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)
Paul Janssen
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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Associate editor ‘Statistica Neerlandica’ (2003- )
Geert Molenberghs
Associate editor ‘Biostatistics’ (1999- 2006)
Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics Editor(2003- )
Co-editor of Biometrics (2007-2009)
Marc Aerts
Associate editor ‘Biometrics’
Associate editor ‘Statistical Modelling’
42 Referee-opdrachten van publicaties op aanvraag van editorial board van
internationale tijdschriften
Herman Callaert
• CERME-5 (Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics
educaton)
Noël Veraverbeke
• Statistics and Computing
• Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
• Applied Statistics
• Statistics and Probability Letters (2)
• Metron
• Book (Wiley)
• Short Book Reviews (10)
• Mathematical Reviews (8)
Paul Janssen
• Statistics in Medicine (2)
• Journal of Royal Statistical Society – Series B
Geert Molenberghs
• Biostatistics (2)
• Biometrika
• Biometrics
• Applied Statistics
• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, read paper
• Journal of the American Statistical Association
• Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
• Canadian Journal of Statistics
• Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics
• Statistics in Medicine (2)
• Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
• Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics
• Statistical Methods in Medical Research
• Test
• Journal of Quality Technology
• Biostatistics (Associate Editor: 13)
• Book Proposal (Wiley, as advisor, 14)
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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Niel Hens
• Statistical Modelling (2)
Tomasz Burzykowski
• Biometrics (2)
• Journal of Clinical Oncology (2)
• Biostatistics
• Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
• Pharmaceutical Statistics
• Wspolczesna Onkologia (Contemporary Oncology)
Ziv Shkedy
• Biometrics
• Journal of Computational Statistics
• Controlled Clinical Trials
Marc Aerts
• Biometrics
• Statistical Modelling
• Quantiative Finance
Christel Faes
• Clinical Trials
• Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
• Biometrics (2)
José Cortiñas
• IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Roel Braekers
• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Ser. B
• JASA
• Canadian Journal of Statistics
• Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Ariel Alonso
• Clinical trials
• Biometrics
Saskia Litière
• Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics
Caroline Beunckens
• Statistics in Medicine
Herbert Thijs
• American Journal of Epidemiology
• Biometrical Journal
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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43 Referee-opdrachten van projecten, ingediend bij internationale onderzoeks-
programma's
Noël Veraverbeke
• Lid Commissie ZAP benoeming K.U.Leuven (maart 2006)
• Lid promotiecommissie Kwazulu Natal, Zuid Afrika (juli 2006)
• Beoordeling onderzoek voor NFR, Zuid Afrika (National Research Foundation)
• Project evaluator voor DFG, Duitsland (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
(november 2006)
Geert Molenberghs
• Faculty member promotion (US : 2)
• Faculty member promotion (Canada: 1)
• Faculty member promotion (Belgium: 1)
• Project proposal for “National Science and Engineering Research Council”, Canada
• Research project evaluation (Institut National de Cancer, France)
Herbert Thijs
• Independent data monitoring committee for Sanofi Aventis
44 Lidmaatschappen van scientific committee van internationale congressen
Geert Molenberghs
• Conference of Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and Observational Studies, in
honor of Normam D. Breslow. Seattle, Washington, USA. (4 augustus 2006)
Noël Veraverbeke
• ICOTS 7, seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics. Salvador,
Brazilië. 1-7 juli 2006. Organizatie van een sessie: “Teaching Nonparametric
Statistics”
Ziv Shkedy
• Non-clinical Statistics Conference. Potsdam, Germany. 26-28 september 2006.
Organizatie van een sessie: “Statistical methods for the exploration of surrogate
and biomarkers in functional genomics”
45 Referee-opdrachten t.a.v. internationale congressen
46 Lidmaatschappen van wetenschappelijke commissies in binnen- en buitenland
Noël Veraverbeke
• President van de Belgische Vereniging voor Statistiek (2002-2005)
• Lid van de Hoge Raad voor Statistiek (benoemd op 8 november 1998)
• Lid van het Wetenschappelijk Comité van de enquête 2001 (2001- )
• Lid van de Scientific Council van Eurandom, Eindhoven, Nederland (2004-2010)
• Lid van de stuurgroep van de FWO Wetenschappelijke Onderzoeksgemeenschap
Wiskunde (1996- )
• Lid van de jury van de Vlaamse Wiskunde Olympiade (1985- )
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• Vertegenwoordiger van FWO-Vlaanderen in de vergaderingen van Mathematics
Representatives of the European Union (Paris 2003, Stockholm 2004, Berlin 2005,
London 2006)
• Jurylid Prijs Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (2005- )
• Verantwoordelijke voor het Outreach Programme van de Bernoulli Society (2005- )
• Expert voor het Federaal Kenniscentrum voor de Gezondsheidszorg
Geert Molenberghs
• Lid van de Wetenschappelijke Commissie Wiskunde van het FWO (2003-2008)
• Lid van de Commissie voor International Wetenschappelijke Contacten van het FWO
(2003-2008)
• Vice-President, Executive Committee Member of the International Biometric Society
(2006)
• Chair of the International Representative of the American Statistical Association
Nominating Committee (2006)
Marc Aerts
• Schatbewaarder Belgische Vereniging voor Statistiek (2005- )
• Expert voor het Federaal Kenniscentrum voor de Gezondheidszorg
• Expert for the “Committee of Experts” (College van Deskundigen) for Contract
Research FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment (Federale Overheidsdienst
Volksgezonheid, Veiligheid van de Voedselketen en Leefmilieu)
• Expert for the “Evaluaton Committee” (Beoordelingscommissie) for Contract
Research FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment (Federale Overheidsdienst
Volksgezondheid, Veiligheid van de Voedselketen en Leefmilieu)
Paul Janssen
• Vice president Belgische Vereniging voor Statistiek
• Lid van de VLIR-werkgroep Onderzoek en IOF werkgroep
• Lid van de Vlaamse Raad voor Wetenschapsbeleid
• Voorzitter Onderzoeksraad UHasselt
• Voorzitter IOF-raad UHasselt
• FWO werkgroep onderzoeksbeleid
• Statistisch adviseur voor het Noord-Zuid-Zuid project Pilotstat (UGent) (Vietnam en
Ecuador)
5 Verwerving van extern gefinancierde onderzoeksprojecten
51 Verwerving van onderzoeksprojecten als projectleider met internationale
participatie
Geert Molenberghs
VLIR Eigen Intiatief Cuba: Biostatistics and bio-informatica Education and Research
(2006-2010)
52 Verwerving van onderzoeksprojecten als deelnemer met internationale
participatie
Marc Aerts, Ziv Shkedy
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SBO-IWT (Strategisch Basisonderzoek) grant “Simulation models of infectious disease
transmission and control processes (SIMID), with applications to five major health policy
issues in Flanders,” January 1, 2007 – December 31, 2010, ism Centre for the Evaluation
of Vaccinations (Universiteit Antwerpen), Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological
Virology (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Department of Microbiology, Division of
Virology (Wetenschappelijk Instituut Volksgezondheid).
53 Verwerving van binnenlandse (nationaal of regionaal) onderzoeksprojecten
Roel Braekers, Noël Veraverbeke
Project, BOF06N03, UHasselt
The Koziol-Green and mixture Koziol-Green models with covariates under dependent
censoring.
Herman Callaert
Project “Statistiek in de media … en in de klas”. Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap,
Project WI/2003/026 (2004-2006)
Geert Molenberghs
Consultant voor Janssen Pharmaceutica (1997-)
Consultant voor UCB (1999-)
Consultant voor Lilly (2000-)
Censtat dienstverlening: In 2006 werd gewerkt aan projecten voor ACHG Likar, Almirall
Prodesfarma nv, Altana Pharma nv, Belgian Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
(BACTS), Cardinal Systems, Centrum voor Huisartsgeneeskunde-K.U.Leuven, Centrum
voor Huisartsgeneeskunde-UA, Eli Lilly, Federaal Kenniscentrum voor de
Gezondheidszorg, Federale Diensten voor Wetenschappelijke, Technische en Culturele
Aangelegenheden (DWTC), Federale Politie, Icagen Inc, Innogenetics, Integraal
Kankercentrum Zuid (IKZ), International Drug Development Institute (IDDI), Janssen
Pharmaceutica NV, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development , L.L.C,
LOOA (Limburgs Overleg Onderwijs Arbeid), Masterfoods, Mithra Pharmaceuticals s.a.,
NIS, Orafti, Polyvision, Pronota, Provincie Limburg, Rekenhof, RIZIV, Sanofi-Aventis,
Recherche & Developpement, Schering Plough nv, Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie
(SCK), Tibotec bvba, UCB, Universiteit Maastricht, UZ Antwerpen, UZ Gasthuisberg, Virga
Jesse Ziekenhuis, Vlaams Agentschap Zorg en Gezondheid, Vlaams Instituut voor
Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad (VLIR), Vlaamse
Regering – administratie Milieu-, Natuur-, Land- en Waterbeheer, Wetenschappelijk
Instituut Volksgezondheid (WIV), Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL)
Paul Janssen
Sensibiliseringsinitiatief 2007 (VLIR-UOS) (in samenwerking met de Dienst
Internationalisering en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking – S. Verlackt)
Co-promotor (samen met co-promotoren van de andere Vlaamse universiteiten) van
Steunpunt O&O Indicatoren (in samenwerking met de Dienst Onderzoek en Innovatie van
de UHasselt – A. Peters en M. Smeyers)
6 Prijzen, vermeldingen, gerealiseerde toepassingen
61 Behaalde wetenschappelijke prijzen
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Geert Molenberghs
• Excellence in continuing Education Award of the American Statistical Association for
Course on Analysis of Clinical Trials: Theory and Application, presented by
Dmitrienko, A., Chuang-Stein, C., and Molenberghs, G. at the Joint Statistical
Meetings; Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (09/08/2005). Awarded in Seattle,
Washington, U.S.A., 07/08/2006.
• Binnenlandse Francqui Leerstoel (Gembloux) (2006-2007)
Niel Hens
• Quetelet Prize 2005-2006 for a most outstanding MSc in Biostatistics project
Cristina Sotto
• Quetelet Prize 2005-2006 for a most outstanding MSc in Biostatistics project
62 Gerealiseerde toepassingen
63 Verworven oktrooien of patenten
7 Samenwerking met andere wetenschappelijke instellingen en onderzoekers
72 Verblijf van buitenlandse onderzoekers aan de UHasselt
Juan Carlos Pardo Fernàndez, University of Vigo, Spain
17 februari 2006; censored data; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord
Jelle Goeman, Universiteit Leiden, Nederland
24 februari 2006; microarray data; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord
Alexandra Daskovska, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve
3 maart 2006; econometrics; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord
Elisa Molanes López, University of la Coruña, Spain
12 maart – 11 juni 2006; relative density; onderzoek
Financiering: eigen financiering
Xavier Paoletti, National Institute of Cancer, Paris, France
21 april 2006; microarrays; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord
Stefan Michiels, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
21 april 2006; microarrays; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord
Jan Swanepoel, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Afrika
22-30 april 2006; distribution function estimation; onderzoek
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Financiering: BOF project
Konstantines Fokianos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
24-30 april 2006; density ratio model; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord
Lisette Sanchez, Institute op Tropical Medicine ‘Pedro Kouri’ (IPK), La Habana, Cuba
5 mei 2006; epidemiologie; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord.
Yoav Benjamini, Tel Aviv University, Israel
10-13 mei 2006; false discovery rate; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord
Clarice G.B. Demetrio, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
11-13 mei 2006; overdispersion; onderzoek en onderwijs
Financiering: UHasselt
Yi Li, Harvard University, Boston, USA
1-31 mei 2006; survival analysis; onderwijs en onderzoek
Financiering: Janssen Pharmaceutica Chair
Christoph Lange, Harvard University, Boston, USA
1-31 mei 2006; genetic data analysis; onderwijs en onderzoek
Financiering: UHasselt
Jacobo de Uña-Alvarez, University of Vigo, Spain
18-20 mei 2006; survival analysis, onderzoek
Financiering: IUAP Project
Arnold Janssen, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
18-20 mei 2006; dependence models; onderzoek
Financiering: IUAP Project
Michael Akritas, Penn State University, USA
18-25 mei 2006; survival analysis; onderzoek
Financiering: IUAP Project
Rosemary Nguti, University of Nairobi, Kenya
1-31 mei 2006; biometry; onderwijs en onderzoek
Financiering: VLIR
Paddy Farrington, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.
16 juni 2006; infectious diseases; onderzoek
Financiering: FWO Project
Jan Swanepoel, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
5-10 september 2006; distribution function estimation; onderzoek
Financiering: BOF Project
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Cornelia Swanepoel, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Afrika
5-10 september 2006; bootstrap; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord
Malgorzata Cwiklinska-Jurkowska, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
1-30 september 2006; bioinformatica; onderzoek
Financiering: IUAP Project
Elisa Molanes López, University of la Coruña, Spain
27 oktober 2006; empirical likelihood; onderzoek
Financiering: individueel akkoord
73 Gemeenschappelijk verricht onderzoek
Jan Swanepoel (North-West University, Potchefstroom, Zuid Afrika)
Paul Janssen en Noël Veraverbeke
Resampling, modified bootstrap and goodness-of-fit
Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation
18-28 januari 2006. P. Janssen en N. Veraverbeke in Potchefstroom
22–30 april 2006. Jan Swanepoel in UHasselt
5-10 september 2006. Jan Swanepoel in UHasselt
Lichun Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
Noël Veraverbeke
Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation
Jasper Anderluch (Delft University, Nederland)
Tetyana Kadankova
Lévy processes in financial mathematics
Individueel akkoord
Ingrid Van Keilegom (UCL)
Roel Braekers
Heteroscedastic regression model with dependence between error and covariate
Individueel akkoord
Ricardo Cao and Elisa Molanes (University of La Coruña, Spain)
Paul Janssen, N. Veraverbeke
Relative density and hazard estimation
Individueel akkoord
12 maart – 11 juni 2006: Elisa Molanes in UHasselt
Luc Duchateau en Klaartje Goethals (UGent)
Paul Janssen
Frailty models, interval censoring
Individueel akkoord
Richard Sylvester (EORTC, Brussel), Cathérine Legrand (Merck Sharpe & Dohme, Brussel)
Paul Janssen
Frailty models in cancer research
Individueel akkoord
Pierre Van Damme, Philippe Beutels, Heidi Theeten, Koen Van Herck (UA), Koen Mintiens,
Stefan Roels (Centrum voor Onderzoek in Diergeneeskunde en Agrochemie), Frank
Boelaert (European Food Safety Agency), Dirk Berkvens (Instituut voor Tropische
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Geneeskunde), Patrick Cras (UA), Claude Saegerman (Un Liège), Peter Teunis en Jaco
Wallinga (RIVM, Bilthoven, NL)
Marc Aerts, Ziv Shkedy, Geert Molenberghs, Christel Faes, Niel Hens, José Cortiñas,
Kaatje Bollaerts, Harriet Namata
Modelling infectious diseases
FWO en Polymod
Koen Mintiens, Ides Boone, Yves Van der Stede, Stefan Roels (Centrum voor Onderzoek
in de Diergeneeskunde en Agronomie), Stefaan Ribbens, Jeroen Dewulf (UGent), Koen
Grijspeerdt (Instituut voor Landbouw en Visserijonderzoek), Peter Teunis (RIVM,
Bilthoven, NL)
Marc Aerts, Ziv Shkedy, Christel Faes, José Cortiñas, Kaatje Bollaerts, Harriet
Namata
Microbial risk assessment and food safety
Patrick Cras, Bart Van Everbroeck, Pierre Van Damme, Philippe Beutels, Koen Van Herck
(Universiteit Antwerpen), Dirk Berkvens (Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde), Claude
Saegerman (Universiteit Luik), Koen Mintiens, Stefan Roels (Centrum voor Onderzoek in
de Diergeneeskunde en Agrochemie).
Marc Aerts
FWO
Koen Mintiens, Ides Boone, Yves Van der Stede (Centrum voor Onderzoek in de
Diergeneeskunde en Agrochemie), Georges Daubes, Laurent Delhalle (Universiteit Luik),
Jeroen Dewulf, Dominiek Maes (Universiteit Gent), Koen Grijspeerdt (Instituut voor
Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek)
Marc Aerts
Project FOD Volksgezondheid
Frank Buntinx, Ann Van der Bruel (KULeuven)
Marc Aerts
Europees project POLYMOD: Pierre Van Damme, Philippe Beutels (Universiteit
Antwerpen), Peter Teunis, Jacco Wallinga (RIVM) + 14 European partner research
institutes
Marc Aerts
Europees project Polymod
Heidi Theeten en Pierre Van Damme (Universiteit Antwerpen), Corinne Vandermeulen,
Mathieu Roelants, Karel Hoppenbrouwers, Anne-Marie Depoorter (VUBrussel)
Marc Aerts
Jeffrey Simonoff (New York University, USA)
Marc Aerts, Niel Hens
Model selection after presmoothing
Individueel akkoord
Mike Kenward (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)
Marc Aerts, Geert Molenberghs, Herbert Thijs, Niel Hens, Ivy Janssen, An Creemers
Incomplete clinical trial data
ESRC Grant
Diverse bezoeken in 2006
Kostas Fokianos (University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus), Frank Buntinx (K.U.Leuven)
Niel Hens, Marc Aerts
The ROC curve
Individueel akkoord
Kristen Van Steen, Els Goetghebeur, Stijn Vansteelandt (UGent), Mike Kenward (London),
Cristina Sotto, An Creemers, Dimitris Rizopoulos, Sypridoula Tsonoka
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Geert Molenberghs, Marc Aerts, Herbert Thijs, Ivy Janssen, Caroline Beunckens
Missing data and sensitivity analysis
Individueel akkoord
Didier Renard (Eli Lilly), Tony Vangeneugden, Fabian Tibaldi
Geert Molenberghs, Tomasz Burzykowski, Helena Geys, José Cortiñas, Ariel Alonso,
Ziv Shkedy, Abel Tilahun, Pryseley Assam
Surrogate markers
Individueel akkoord
Paul Eilers (Leiden Universiteit, NL)
Kaatje Bollaerts, Marc Aerts
Splines
Individueel akkoord
John Edmunds and Nigel Gay (Health Protection Agency, London, UK)
Niel Hens
Infectious diseases; modelling contact patterns
1-18 mei 2006; Niel Hens in London
13-16 december 2006: Niel Hens in London
Polymod project
Leen Decin, Conny Aerts (K.U.Leuven)
Ziv Shkedy
Astrostatistics
Individueel akkoord
Henry Mwambi (University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa)
Ziv Shkedy
Infectious diseases
Individueel akkoord
Geert Verbeke (K.U.Leuven), Mike Kenward (London)
Christel Faes
Effective sample size and degrees of freedom
Individueel akkoord
Paul De Boeck, Dirk Smits, Geert Verbeke, Edward Ip, Yuri Goeghebeur (K.U.Leuven)
Geert Molenberghs
Logistic mixed models in items response theory
Individueel akkoord
Geert Verbeke (K.U.Leuven)
Geert Molenberghs
Models for discrete repeated measures
Individueel akkoord
Geert Verbeke, Iven Van Mechelen, Francis Tuerlinckx (K.U.Leuven)
Geert Molenberghs
Methods for optimization in statistics
Individueel akkoord
Michael Kenward (London), Raymond Caroll (Texas A&M University), Craig Malinckrodt
(Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, USA)
Geert Molenberghs, Caroline Beunckens, Ivy Jansen, Cristina Sotto
Missing data in clinical trials
Individueel akkoord
Carmen Cadarso Suarez (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Geert Molenberghs, Helena Geys, Ariel Alonso, Christel Faes
Statistical analysis in neuro firing rates
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Individueel akkoord
Kennedy Otwombe (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Niel Hens
EM-algorithm by the method of weights
Individueel akkoord
Natalia Kwasnikowska, Kerstin Koch, Jan Van den Bussche, Frank Neven (Infolab,
UHasselt)
Tomasz Burzykowski, Ivy Jansen
Gene-pathway findings
Individueel akkoord
Didier Renard (Eli Lilly, Belgium), Christelle Darstein (Eli Lilly, USA)
Ariel Alonso, Saskia Litière, Annouschka Laenen, Geert Molenberghs
Surrogate markers
Individueel akkoord
Luc Bijnens (Janssen Pharma), Luc Wouters (Barrier Therapeutics)
Dan Lin
Microarray data
Individueel akkoord
Ann Cuypers, Karen Smeets, Joske Ruytinx (Environmental Biology, UHasselt)
Ivy Jansen
Microarray data
Individueel akkoord
George Daube (UL), Lieven De Zutter (UG), Koen Grijpeerdt (CLO), Koen Mintiens
(CODA), Herman Van Oyen (WIV)
Kaatje Bollaerts, Marc Aerts, Ziv Shkedy
Individueel akkoord
NIS (Nationaal Instituut voor de Statistiek) en vijf Belgische Onderzoeksgroepen (VUB,
UCL, UA(2), UHasselt)
Veerle Vandersmissen, Liesbeth Bruckers, Geert Molenberghs
Vervanging van de Census door administratieve databanken en enquêtes
WIV (Wetenschappelijk Instituut Volksgezondheid)
Veerle Vandersmissen
Gezondheidsenquête
Individueel akkoord
Kristof Engelen
Dirk Valkenborg
Microarray data
Individueel akkoord
Jean-Paul Noben
Dirk Valkenborg
Protemics
Individueel akkoord
Dani Yekutieli, H.W.H. Göhlmann, An De Bondt, Tim Perera, Tamara Geerts, Ilse Van den
Wijngaert, Luc Bijnens
Dan Lin, Tomasz Burzykowski, Ziv Shkedy
Microarray experiments
Individueel akkoord
Roel Straetemans (Janssen Pharma)
Tom Jacobs, Geert Molenberghs
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Mixed effects modeling
Individueel akkoord
University of Havana, Cuba
Geert Molenberghs, José Cortiñas
Training and Research program in medical statistics and bioinformatics (preparation
of a VLIR-Own Initiative Project)
26 november – 12 december: José Cortiñas in Cuba
Diverse bezoeken van Geert Molenberghs aan Cuba
Centro de Immunologia Molecular (CIM) and Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Petro Kouri”
(IPK), Havana, Cuba
Saskia Litière, Ziv Shkedy
Individueel akkoord
11 oktober – 23 november 2006: Saskia Litière in Cuba
Luc Bijnens (Janssen Pharma)
Christel Faes
Use of penalized splines
Individueel akkoord
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Activiteitenverslag - Voordrachten op nationale of regionale congressen, studiedagen, symposia,
workshops Herman Callaert
• 18 november 2006. Eekhoutcentrum West Vlaanderen, Kortrijk. Op exploratie in de statistiek: nieuw en boeiend
• 1 en 8 februari 2006 (Kenniscentrum Aalst), 15 en 22 februari 2006 (UHasselt), 8 en 15 maart 2006 (K.U.Leuven). Exploratieve statistiek voor het secundair onderwijs. Nascholingen voor leerkrachten wiskunde van het secundair onderwijs
Geert Molenberghs
• 22-23 februari 2006, K.U.Leuven. Interuniversity Graduate School of
Psychometrics and Sociometrics, IUAP/PAI Network
Mixed models and incomplete data
• 27 april 2006, SAS Academic Day, Brussel.
Analysis of incomplete longitudinal data
• 28-29 april 2006. Hotel La Réserve, Knokke.
Permanente Vorming 2005-2006, K.U.Leuven
Ontwikkeling van tools voor gegevensverzameling binnen de geestelijke
gezondheidszorg. Cursus: Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg 2015.
• 2-3 mei 2006, K.U.Leuven
Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Scientometrics, IUAP/PAI
Network
Numerical techniques for statisticians
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• 18 mei 2006, Brussel
Interuniversitair doctoraat medische wetenschappen Incomplete Data
• 12 juni 2006, K.U.Leuven Leuven Statistical Day Opportunities and challenges in mixed models and incomplete data
• 23 juni 2006, Universiteit Hasselt Formal and informal model selection and assessment when data are incomplete
• 27 november 2006, K.U.Leuven International seminar: Non-response and coverage problems in telephone surveys Incomplete data in surveys: the Slovenian Public Opinion Survey
Roel Braekers
• 5 mei 2006, U.C.L., Louvain-la-Neuve
A conditional Koziol-Green model under dependent censoring.
Marc Aerts
• 22 september 2006. 14th Annual Meeting of the Flemish Society for veterinary
epidemiology and economics, Gent.
Predictive value of sperm motility characteristics and morphology on reproductive
performance in sows.
Ziv Shkedy
• 11 – 13 oktober 2006. 14th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society,
Houffalize.
Estimating the force of infection from serological data: past, present and future;
An overview of 78 years of statistical solution for epidemiological problem (invited
talk)
Tomasz Burzykowski
• 22 september 2006, Tervuren. Bioscope-IT
Workshop in Biostatistics
Dealing with missing data
Niel Hens
• 19 mei 2006, K.U.Leuven. IUAP: Recent developments in the analysis of repeated
measurement studies in the presence of missing data;
Some issues in modelling incomplete longitudinal data using selection models
Saskia Litière
• 24 maart 2006, Universiteit Hasselt. The impact of misspecifying the random-
effects distribution on maximum likelihood estimation in generalized lineair mixed
models
• 12 mei 2006. Universiteit Hasselt. The impact of misspecifying the random-effects
distribution on maximum likelihood estimation in generalized lineair mixed models
Tetyana Kadankova
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• 10 februari 2006. Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België, Brussel. 4th Actuarial
and Financial Mathematics Day
Several two-boundary problems for Lévy processes.
Harriet Namata
• 16-17 maart 2006. UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve.
Estimation of microbial risk using AIC model averaging approach.
• 12 mei 2006. Universiteit Hasselt
Estimation of microbial risk using AIC model averaging approach.
An Creemers
• 12-13 oktober 2006. 14th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society,
Houffalize.
A new nonparametric approach to weighted estimating equations for missing data.
Dirk Valkenborg
• 11-13 oktober 2006. 14th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society,
Houffalize.
Monoisotopic peak validation using a Poisson approximation in a combined
fractional diagonal chromatography and mass spectometry setting.
• 7-8 december 2006. Conference on Proteome Analysis in Systems Biology,
Antwerpen.
Monoisotopic peak validation using a Poisson approximation in a combined
fractional diagonal chromatography and mass spectometry setting.
• 23 november 2006. Associatie Universiteit Hogescholen Limburg: Dag van het
onderzoek, Diepenbeek.
An algorithm to process and analyse COFRADIC data (poster)
• 23 november 2006. Associatie Universiteit Hogescholen Limburg: Dag van het
onderzoek, Diepenbeek.
Monoisotopic peak validation using a Poisson approximation in a combined
fractional diagonal chromatography and mass spectometry setting. (poster)
• 7-8 december 2006. Conference on Proteome Analysis in Systems Biology,
Antwerpen.
An algorithm to process and analyse COFRADIC data (poster).
Liesbeth Bruckers
• 21- 22 september 2006. Derde Vlaams Geestelijk Gezondheidscongres, Brussel.
Persisterend Storend Gedrag.
Abel Tilahun
• 11-13 oktober 2006. 14th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society,
Houffalize.
Longitudinal analysis of drug induced changes in EEG data in rats.
Lien Beunckens
• 28 april 2006. SAS Academic Day, Brussel.
Analysis of incomplete longitudinal data.
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• 19 mei 2006. K.U.Leuven, IUAP: Recent developments in the analysis of repeated
measurements studies in the presence of missing data.
A latent class mixture model for dealing with incomplete longitudinal data.
Veerle Vandersmissen
• 31 januari 2006. Wetenschappelijk Instituut Volksgezondheid, Brussel.
De gezondheidsenquête: multiple imputatie.
Tom Jacobs
• 12-13 oktober 2006. 14th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society,
Houffalize.
In vivo – in vitro correlation data modelling and random efects: a case study.
Philippe Haldermans
• 12-3 oktober 2006. 14th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society,
Houffalize;
Using linear mixed models for normalization of cDNA microarrays.
An Creemers
• 12-13 oktober 2006. 14th Annual Meeting of the Belgian Statistical Society,
Houffalize.
A new nonparametric approach to weighted estimated equations for missing data.
Kaatje Bollaerts
• 22 september – 1 november 2006. VEE-study day, Merelbeke.
Identification of salmonella risk factors in pig farms.
John Maringwa
• 16 maart 2006. Belgische Vereniging voor Nefrologie, Gent
The defence status of murine kidneys exposed to low concentrations of Cadmium:
from metal scavenging proteins to antioxidant detoxification (poster) (awarded)
Binnenlandse bezoekers (seminarie)
• Katrien Declercq, S.A.S., 13 januari 2006
• Philippe Beutels, Universiteit Antwerpen, 14 april 2006
• Pierre Van Damme, Universiteit Antwerpen, 28 april 2006
• Thierry Van Effelterre, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, 9 juni 266
Congressen (passieve deelname)
Noël Veraverbeke
• Fourth Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Day, Brussel, 10 februari 2006.
• Bijeenkomst Stochastici. Lunteren, Nederland, 13-15 november 2006.
• Franqui Chair Inaugural Lecture, Leuven, 22 november 2006.
• Lezingennamiddag, Eurandom, Eindhoven, Nederland, 23 november 2006.
• One Day Meeting IAP Network. K.U.Leuven, 19 mei 2006.
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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Herman Callaert
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conferences. St. Louis, 26-29 april 2006.
Phoenix, 4-7 oktober 2006.
Roel Braekers
• Workshop 5. Flexible Statistical Analysis adepted to complex data structures, Louvain-
la-Neuve, 16-17 maart, 2006.
• One Day Meeting on Survival Analysis, Diepenbeek, 19 mei 2006.
Ivy Jansen
• European Mathematical Genetics Meeting, Cardiff, Wales, 6-7 april 2006.
• Belgian Statistical Society, Houffalize, 12-13 oktober 2006.
• Symposium on Proteone Analysis in Systems Biology, Antwerpen, 7-8 december 2006.
Niel Hens
• Symposium Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases as advanced tools in
epidemiology and public health, Bilthoven, Nederland, 27 januari 2006.
• Belgian Statistical Society, Houffalize, 12-13 oktober 2006.
José Cortiñas
• One Day symposium Discovering the false discovery rate: multiple inference in
genomics, Hasselt, 11 mei 2006.
Dirk Valkenborg
• 6th Micro Array Usergroup Meeting, Leuven, 13-15 november 2006.
Saskia Litière
• IT – 2006 Targeting Complexity, Center of Molecular Immunology, Havana, Cuba, 15-
19 november 2006.
Cristina Sotto
• One Day Meeting IAP Network, K.U.Leuven, 19 mei 2006.
Harriet Namata
• Symposium on mathematical models for infectious diseases control, RIVM Bilthoven,
Nederland, 27 januari 2006.
• One Day Symposium on survival analysis. IAP Research Network in Statistics, Hasselt,
19 mei 2006.
• Workshop Tools for infectious disease modeling, Cairns, Australia, 13-15 augustus
2006.
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
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Christel Faes
• International workshop on spatio-temporal modelling, Pamplona, Spain, 27-29
september 2006.
Jaarverslag Onderzoeksgroepen 2006
- Uitnodigingen van UHasselt-stafleden als gasthoogleraar aan buitenlandse universiteiten of op zomerscholen
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