Meetings of the Methods Research Workgroup (Population-Level Estimation Workgroup)

General
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This week there will be two joint meetings of the PLP and PLE workgroups:

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Martijn will present on the CohortDiagnostics package.

Time: March 4, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Sydney

  • 5:30pm Adelaide

  • 4pm South Korea

  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan

  • 8am Central European time

  • 7am UK time

Skype Meeting details:

URL: Skype for Business

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Mimi will present on her work on evaluating different machine-learning algorithms for creating propensity scores. Martijn will present on the CohortDiagnostics package.

Time: March 5, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time

  • 5pm UK time

  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania

  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Skype Meeting details:

URL: Skype for Business

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Unfortunately, I have to cancel this month’s Eastern Hemisphere meeting. Due to the study-a-thon, we didn’t get around to setting up a topic.So no meeting on Wednesday April 1.

We will have our Western hemisphere meeting:

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Dani will present on some of the issues encountered during the COVID-19 study-a-thon.

Time: April 2, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/KF143769

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Sorry everyone. Cancelling the Western Hemisphere meeting as well. The study-a-thon may be officially over, but we’re still working furiously on writing the papers, and I don’t want to distract from that work.

So no PLP / PLE workgroup meeting today!

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This week there will be two joint meetings of the PLP and PLE workgroups:

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Disease Risk Scores.

Time: May 6, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 5pm Sydney
  • 4:30pm Adelaide
  • 4pm South Korea
  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan
  • 9am Central European time
  • 8am UK time

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/9CKLLR7L

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Disease Risk Scores.

Time: May 7, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/KF143769

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This week there will be two joint meetings of the PLP and PLE workgroups:

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Seek COVER: Development and validation of a personalized risk calculator for COVID-19 outcomes in an international network, by @RossW

Time: June 3, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 5pm Sydney
  • 4:30pm Adelaide
  • 4pm South Korea
  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan
  • 9am Central European time
  • 8am UK time

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/9CKLLR7L

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Seek COVER: Development and validation of a personalized risk calculator for COVID-19 outcomes in an international network, by @jreps

Time: June 4, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/KF143769

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Recordings and notes of this week’s meetings are now available on the Wiki.

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This week there will be two joint meetings of the PLP and PLE workgroups:

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Applying advanced dimensionality reduction techniques to adjust for confounding, by @SCYou

Time: July 1, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 5pm Sydney
  • 4:30pm Adelaide
  • 4pm South Korea
  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan
  • 9am Central European time
  • 8am UK time

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/9CKLLR7L

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Non-iterative approaches to fitting models across sites without sharing patient-level data, by @chenyong1203

Time: July 2, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/KF143769

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Recordings and notes of this week’s meetings are now available on the Wiki

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Coming week there will be two joint meetings of the PLP and PLE workgroups:

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects, by @arekkas.

Time: August 5, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 5pm Sydney
  • 4:30pm Adelaide
  • 4pm South Korea
  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan
  • 9am Central European time
  • 8am UK time

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/9CKLLR7L

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Feature Importance metrics, by @jreps

Time: August 6, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/KF143769

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@jennareps’s slides on Feature Importance (August 6 meeting) are now available on the wiki

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Coming week there will be two joint meetings of the PLP and PLE workgroups:

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects, by @arekkas.

Time: September 2, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 5pm Sydney
  • 4:30pm Adelaide
  • 4pm South Korea
  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan
  • 9am Central European time
  • 8am UK time

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/9CKLLR7L

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Meta-analysis across a database network using non-normal approximations: why and how?, by @schuemie.

Time: September 3, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/KF143769

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The recordings of both meetings are now available on the Wiki.

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This week we’ll have the Western Hemisphere joint PLP / PLE meeting:

Western hemisphere

Agenda: Facilitating open access to synthetic OHD while preserving both privacy and utility with generative adversarial networks, by Jeremy Georges-Filteau

Time: October 1, 2020 at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/KF143769

The Eastern Hemisphere meeting will be next week (Always on the first Wednesday of the month)

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This week we’ll have the Eastern Hemisphere joint PLP / PLE meeting

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Learning Curves, by @lhjohn

Time: October 7, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Sydney
  • 5:30pm Adelaide
  • 4pm South Korea
  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan
  • 9am Central European time
  • 8am UK time

Skype Meeting details:

URL: https://meet.lync.com/jnj-its/mschuemi/9CKLLR7L

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The recordings of both meetings are now available on the Wiki

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This week there will be two joint meetings of the PLP and PLE workgroups:

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: White Bandicoot for data quality, by Christine Chidgey and Roger Ward

Time: November 4 at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Sydney
  • 5:30pm Adelaide
  • 4pm South Korea
  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan
  • 8am Central European time
  • 7am UK time

Teams Meeting details:

URL: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Methods for the emulation of target surgical trials, by Albert Prats-Uribe

Time: November 5, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Teams Meeting details:

URL: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

BEWARE: This is the first time we’ll be using Teams for these meetings, so make sure to use the new URL.
ALSO: Several countries have gone on or off daylight savings since the last meeting, so make sure to check the time.

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The recordings of both meetings are now available on the Wiki

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This week there will be two joint meetings of the PLP and PLE workgroups:

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Representation-learning based propensity score model for causal inference in high dimension , by Seng Chan You

Time: December 2 at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Sydney
  • 5:30pm Adelaide
  • 4pm South Korea
  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan
  • 8am Central European time
  • 7am UK time

Teams Meeting details:

URL: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Pharmacoepi, pharmacogenomics and drug safety: early results and a plan for analysis of uk biobank data , by Frank Xie

Time: December 3, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Teams Meeting details:

URL: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

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The recordings of the December 2 meeting is now available on the Wiki . Unfortunately, I forgot to download the recording of the December 3 meeting before it expired :frowning:

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This week there will be two joint meetings of the PLP and PLE workgroups. Based on the discussions in the Steering Committee, I want to take the PLP/PLE workgroups on a different tack: I’d like to see whether we can agree on a shared methods research agenda for 2021, and collaborate to fulfil that agenda.

Eastern hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Brainstorming for a shared research agenda

Time: January 6 at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Sydney
  • 5:30pm Adelaide
  • 4pm South Korea
  • 3pm Hong Kong / Taiwan
  • 8am Central European time
  • 7am UK time

Teams Meeting details:

URL: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

Western hemisphere

Preliminary agenda: Brainstorming for a shared research agenda

Time: January 7, at these times (DST where appropriate):

  • 6pm Central European time
  • 5pm UK time
  • 12pm (noon) New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania
  • 9am Los Angeles / Stanford

Teams Meeting details:

URL: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting

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