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SUMMARY:Multi-state models for observed and latent cognitive function in 
 the older population
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for this research seminar\, part of the Probability a
 nd Statistics seminar series.\n\nDue to the ageing population there is a
  growing interest in the statistical modelling of cognitive function in 
 old age. When analysing longitudinal data on ageing\, lost to follow-up 
 because of death cannot be ignored. One option is to model survival and 
 change of cognitive function jointly by specifying submodels for the two
  processes and linking these models by individual-specific random effect
 s.\n\nAnother option – and the topic of this seminar - is to use a conti
 nuous-time multi-state survival model where a series of living states is
  defined by the level of cognitive function and an additional dead state
  is included. This multi-state approach is quite general and can be used
  in many other applications in biostatistics\, social statistics\, and d
 emography.\n\nThe seminar will start with introducing the continuous-tim
 e multi-state survival model by discussing model specification\, maximum
  likelihood estimation\, and some applications. The second part will pre
 sent an extension of current methods: a hidden Markov model for modellin
 g bivariate cognitive function\, where each state-dependent distribution
  is a bivariate extension of the binomial distribution.\n\nThe methods w
 ill be illustrated by using longitudinal data from a UK survey of the ol
 der population.
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LOCATION:Frank Adams 2\, Alan Turing Building\, Manchester
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