CSTAT hosts 2021 Virtual STRATOS Conference
The STRATOS Initiative (STRengthening Analytical Thinking for Observational Studies, https://stratos-initiative.org/) is a collaboration of over 100 international experts in many different areas of biostatistical and biomedical research. A virtual conference was hosted by CSTAT on November 2, 2021, by Dr. Marianne Huebner, director of CSTAT, who is also a co-chair of this organization. Discussions were about developing evidence-supported guidance for statistical issues of practical importance in clinical research through expert consensus. Progress reports of exciting projects covering study design, missing data methods, initial data analysis, variable selection, evaluation of prognostic models, survival analysis, measurement error, causal inference, and high dimensional data analysis were presented.