General meeting updates

Attendees

attendees 10_Feb_25 Lyn Taylor Yes Christina Fillmore No Chi Zhang No Molly MacDiarmid Yes Benjamin Arancibia No Michael Kane Yes Martin Brown No Stephen McCawille Yes Miriam Amor Yes Peilin Zhou No Samrit Pramanik No Brian Varney Yes Vikrant Vijay No Yannick Vandendijck Yes Vikash Jain Yes Michael Walshe Yes Anwesha Roy No

Agenda & Minutes

• Volunteers needed for

  • CI for props section (See r page).

    • any R packages that can do CI for matched 2 proportions using wilson or normal approximation methods.

    • any R packages that can do CI for unmatched 2 proportions using newcombe (or wilson method)
      (Stephen M suggested: https://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/DescTools/html/BinomDiffCI.html and https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/presize/presize.pdf
      ACTION: Lyn to investigate & write up.

  • NOTE: logistic regression will be updated soon to include Multiple treatment contrasts.
    

• Conference planning See latest Conference Tab on website (lyn updated today but needs PR approving)

-   posit::conf(2025) deadline 3rd Feb in person atlanta

-   PHUSE US connect 16th-19th march. lyn to send content to Hamming Tu (Vikash attending) Lyn to CC vikash let Hamming know you are going. Vikash & Hamming to discuss any presenting plan for CAMIS

-   ISBC 14th Feb submission deadline. Yannick submitting abstract

-   Any others? Please add to the page

• Communication team update (Vikash & Molly)

  • Blog ideas

    • latest repo updates (CI for Props)

    • Key interesting findings

    • Conferences

    • Molly will maintain conferences tab going forward

• Content updates
  Anyone with any questions about what they are working on or how to assign themselves?

  • MMRM (stephen waugh)

  • CMH (Lyn)

  • Sample size (agnieska)

  • Reference based MI (Yannick)

  • Generalized (binomial & multi-nom?) MMRM (Miriam)

  • Wilcoxon signed rank coin package - Martin

  • Propensity scores restriction on SAS vs R (Stephen McCawille & Christina)
    

• Objective to get more regulatory input - ongoing
  Work with PSI AIMS as they plan a EMA regulatory panel discussion on R Any other ideas?
  FDA/ Other regulators input/discussion.

• Think about white paper.. on robustness of results and finding local minima in convergence that are actually issues?….

• University contacts - ongoing

  • Christina has a new student looking for CAMIS project

  • Michael Kane : R medicine

  • Yannick may have a intern in summer 8-10 weeks CAMIS research

  • Stephen W doing MSc dissertation project on MMRM

• Technical back end improvements - ongoing

• CAMIS- 3 x workshops - ongoing

  • Introduction to CAMIS project / how to contribute - Christina.

  • Key findings of CAMIS project - Lyn

  • How do you do comparisons in software

ACTION :Lyn to ask Orla if she can update renv for Yannicks PR. (And also explain how to do it so others can do it in future).