Please join us for the 6th Statistical Practice in Cancer Conference (SPCC), to be held at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, Friday morning through Saturday noon, February 16-17, 2024. Our Keynote speakers are Alan Agresti, University of Florida, "Simple Ways to Interpret Effects in Modeling Binary and Ordinal Data", and Sumithra Mandrekar, Mayo Clinic, "Analyses Leveraging Data from Alliance-Coordinated Clinical Trials to Inform Design, Conduct, and Endpoints", and Yang Xie, University of Texas Southwestern, "Data Science and AI in Cancer Research". Panel Discussions will be on: "Data Management and Sharing" (Moderator: Leslie Cope, Johns Hopkins University, with Heather Basehore for the NCI Office of Data Sharing, and "Issues on the Use of AI/ChatGPT Information in Biostatistics".
The goal of this one-and-a-half-day conference is to enhance "best statistical practices" for cancer center biostatisticians. The emphasis is on practical solutions to challenges we often face and opportunities to gain efficiencies in our collaborations. Contributions are welcomed from any area of statistical practice in cancer, but the use of modern data science is a particular area of emphasis for the 2024 meeting.
Abstract deadline for the conference is December 17, 2023, and registration by January 29, 2024. The Program Committee will select some abstracts for talks and others for a poster session. Registration is free for this in-person meeting. Travel awards of $250 will be given to the first 5 non-faculty talk/poster presenters accepted by the Program Committee
SPCC Planning Committee members are Leslie Cope (Johns Hopkins), Mithat Gonen (Memorial Sloan-Kettering), J. Jack Lee (MD Anderson), Ji-Hyun Lee (University of Florida), Sumithra Mandrekar (Mayo Clinic), Quincy Mo (Moffitt Cancer Center), Michael J. Schell (Moffitt Cancer Center), Deo Kumar Srivastava (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital), and Heidi Weiss (University of Kentucky).
For further details on the conference and information on hotels, please go to http://beststatisticalpractice.com/
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Michael Schell
Senior Member, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Moffitt Cancer Center
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