Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Short Course – 10/25
Short Course: N-of-1 Trials for Personalized Healthcare
Friday October 25, 2024 | 8:30am – 1:00pm
In-Person, Countway Library. There will be no virtual option.
In this Short Course, instructor Christopher Schmid, PhD, will discuss the promise and challenges of N-of-1 trials, including the use of software to design and analyze trials, the use of mobile apps to facilitate participation, retain interest, collect data and provide interpreted results to participants, and some of the research barriers that need to be overcome, particularly the challenges of accommodating personalized protocols. These issues are illustrated by several of his recent projects each involving many N-of-1 trials in which mobile device applications were combined with server-driven statistical analytics using an R package to return results to individuals. Schmid will discuss defining treatments and sequences of treatments, synthesizing treatment networks, incorporating patient-specific prior information, automating the choice of appropriate statistical models and assessment of model assumptions, and automating graphical displays and text to facilitate appropriate interpretation by non-technical users.
Speaker:
Christopher Schmid, PhD, Brown University School of Public Health
