Activities

Intentions

There have been many statistical advances to address measurement error in the past few decades. With our activities we intend to raise the awareness for the topic and to overcome barriers to using measurement error adjustment methods, e.g.

Upcoming activities

ICDAM, June 26-29, 2023: Symposium "Accounting for measurement error and misclassification – different methods for different research study designs"


General relevance

Article on the general problem of measurement error in epidemiology intended for the intelligent layman

Literature survey

Literature survey about current practice for addressing measurement error in four areas of epidemiology in which measurement error is known to be extensive

Guidance

Main document on guidance on dealing with measurement error and misclassification intended for biostatisticians  

Further projects

Projects that are currently ongoing include the construction and use of prediction equations, handling error-prone continuous variables that have been categorized, a case study on how to do measurement error correction in practice and error in measurements of dietary intake used in nutritional epidemiology.

Workshops and Conferences

Contributions to workshops and conferences in order to increase the awareness of the topic

Collaborations

Collaborations with other topic groups and participation in committees of the STRATOS initiative