This national course is open to PhD students, postdocs, and staff in the life sciences who need biostatistical skills in their research. Using real research examples, the course introduces core ideas of statistical inference and guides participants through widely used models such as regression, mixed-effects models for repeated or hierarchical data, and survival analysis. The course is suitable both for those with limited prior training and for researchers already applying statistical methods who want a stronger conceptual foundation to confidently choose, apply, and interpret statistical analyses in their own work.

Course content

• Probability, sampling, and distributions for biological data
• Sampling variability and resampling
• PCA and clustering
• Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing
• Linear models for continuous outcomes
• Generalized linear models for binary and count data
• Mixed-effects models for repeated or hierarchical data,
• Survival analysis and time-to-event data

A course fee of 3000 SEK for academic participants and 15000 SEK for non-academic participants will be invoiced to accepted participants. The fee includes lunches, coffee and snacks. Please note that NBIS cannot invoice individuals