DIMACS Workshop on Ecologic Inference

November 28 - 30, 2007
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizer:

Tom Webster, Boston University, twebster@bu.edu

Workshop Program:

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

11:00 -  1:00  Registration and lunch

 1:00 -  1:15  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director

 1:15 -  2:15  Overview: Studies that combine individual and group-level data
	       Tom Webster, Boston University 

 2:15 -  3:15  The combination of ecological and case-control data
	       Sebastien Haneuse, Center for Health Studies

 3:15 -  3:45  Break

 3:45 -  4:45  Combining individual and ecologic data: Causal inference and
               sampling design
               Adam Glynn, Harvard University 

 4:45 -  5:15  Discussion

 5:15 -  6:45  Reception
		
Thursday, November 29, 2007

 8:00 -  9:00  Breakfast and registration

 9:00 - 10:00  Combining the individual health survey with the aggregate
               mortality data to estimate the disability-free life expectacy
               Kosuke Imai, Princeton University 

10:00 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 11:30  Individual studies with ecologic measures of exposure
	       Tom Webster, Boston University 		

11:30 - 12:30  Efficiency of two-phase methods with focus on a planned
               population-based case-control study on air pollution and stroke and
               some preliminary empirical results
               Anna Oudin, Lund University (Sweden)

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch and informal discussion

 2:00 -  3:00  Individual studies with ecologic measures of exposure III
	       Pia Verkasalo, National Public Health Institute (Finland)

 3:00 -  4:00  Direct and indirect effects for neighborhood-level interventions
	       Tyler VanderWeele, University of Chicago 
	
 4:00 -  5:00  Discussion			

Friday, November 30, 2007

 8:00 -  9:00  Breakfast and registration

 9:00 - 10:00  Fisher information in complete and incomplete 2 x 2 tables
	       Rob Eisinga, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)

10:00 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 11:15  Additive versus multiplicative models in ecologic regression
               Dan Wartenberg, Rutgers University 

11:15 - 11:45  Discussion

11:45 -  1:15  Lunch and informal discussion

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