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The 100% online IBR (no classes) is an intensive course that requires a time investment of approximately 14 hours per week during 11 weeks.

For the in-person course, which is 10 course days in 4 weeks, you need to bring your own private or work laptop with statistical software package SPSS or R-studio already installed on your computer.

The course consists of 10 Learning Units (LU’s): 1 Learning Unit per week and 2 weeks for LU 10. In each LU a statistical theme is explained using short web lectures, alternated with computer exercises.

In general, the daily schedule of the in-person course includes morning lectures from 09.30 to 12.30 h, followed by computer sessions in the afternoon from 13.30 to 17.00 h.

Examples from medical and biological research will be used in the exercises. Datasets will be analyzed using the statistical software packages R and/or SPSS (you need to ensure that these programs are available to you; R is freeware, for SPSS a campus license is available for most universities). In the various LU’s discussion forums are provided in which you can discuss theory and practice exercises with staff and fellow participants. The Statistics Cafe will serve as a virtual meeting place for discussing more general statistical questions, and to talk with your peers about your own research.

Prerequisite knowledge

Although active statistical knowledge is not a prerequisite, we assume some basic knowledge on statistics and mathematics acquired through, for example, courses in biostatistics in the bachelor programme or self study.

The basic knowledge we assume are:

• the concepts of population and sample
• histogram, boxplot, frequency table, scatterplot
• mean, median
• variance, standard deviation, range, interquartile range, standard error of the mean
• probability, probability distributions (especially the normal distribution)

Group size

40 participants

Number of credits

4.0 EC

Course certificate

After active participation during the entire course participants will receive a certificate.

This course is free for GSLS PhD candidates. However: free of charge does not mean free of responsibility. Once you have signed up for a course, we expect you to attend. For every late cancellation or no-show we have had to disappoint others who would have liked to attend. This is our policy:

• You may cancel free of charge up to 4 weeks before the start of the course. After this date you can only cancel if you have a GSLS PhD candidate to replace you in the course. Send the name and contact information of your replacement to pcc@uu.nl, at least 2 working days before the start of the course;
• We expect that you actively attend the full course, but at least 80%. It is mandatory to attend the first session. If you are absent the first session you cannot follow the remaining of the course;
• Not meeting the above requirements means you will be charged a no-show fee (€ 700). We will send the invoice after the course has ended. We are unable to make any exceptions, unless you have a valid reason (i.e., illness or death in the family 1^st/2^nd degree or partner). Your supervisor has to send an e-mail to pcc@uu.nl indicating the reason.