Graham Dunn seminar: Current Methods for Missing Data

The Centre for Biostatistics at the University of Manchester and the Manchester local group of the Royal Statistical Society will host a half-day seminar on methods for missing data. The seminar will include talks from three speakers about methods for missing data in both trials and observational studies. All are welcome to attend this free event, but please register in advance. 

Please note this is an in-person only event. 

The outline for the afternoon is as follows:

13.00 - 13.10: Welcome

13.10 - 14.00: Professor James Carpenter (LSHTM) - Missing data: A statistical framework for practice

14.00 - 14.50: Professor Evan Kontopantelis (University of Manchester) - Dealing with missing data in large observational studies of Electronic Health Records

14.50 - 15.10: Coffee Break

15.10 - 16.00: Dr Daisy Gaunt (University of Bristol) - Practical methods for missing data sensitivity analyses in clinical trials

About the speakers:

James Carpenter is Professor of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has done extensive work on the use of missing data methods, particularly multiple imputation, in medical research.   

Evangelos Kontopantelis is Professor in Data Science and Health Services Research at the University of Manchester. He holds degrees in computational statistics and machine learning, and has a long track record in research using large-scale primary care and other administrative databases to investigate quality of care. His methodological interests include statistical methods in health sciences with a focus on meta-analysis, longitudinal data modelling, observational studies with electronic health records, spatial epidemiology, machine learning and quasi-experimental designs.

Daisy Gaunt is a medical statistician working within the registered UKCRC Bristol Trials Centre (BTC) where she is a statistical co-applicant on grants, and involved in all aspects of trial design and analysis, from sample size calculations to analyses of outcomes.
Her NIHR Doctoral fellowship was titled "Missing data in paediatric clinical trials; why does it happen and what can we do about it?" She explored clinical trialists experiences of working with young people and their families in paediatric RCTs through qualitative interviews, and explored methods to appropriately analyse completed paediatric RCTs where missing data is suspected to be Missing Not At Random. This was supervised by Professor Chris Metcalfe, Dr Rachael Hughes, Dr Jeremy Horwood and Dr Lucy Beasant (former - Professor Esther Crawley).