Our courses
Our course material is based on our two Springer books:
Flyer: Click here for a general
course flyer.
Who should attend: Any life scientist interested in data analysis.
Where do we run our courses? Anywhere. We have given courses in the UK, Portugal, Ireland, Mexico,
New Zealand, Argentina, Italy,
The Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Bulgaria, etc. Here are some
pictures from previous courses.
You want to run an in-house course? Please contact us. We give courses
all over the world. Due to the high demand for our courses, there is a waiting
list of approximately 14 months. Prices depend on location, course content and our travel costs.
You want to attend one of our open course somewhere in the world?
About 15% of our courses are open, and places are available on a
first-register-first-serve basis. Prices between these courses differ considerably
due to currency differences and number of participants.
Open courses |
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Course |
Remaining seats |
Costs (No VAT on these courses) |
| Statistics in forensic entomology, 29 September - 2 October
2009, Zentrum der Rechtsmedizin, Frankfort am Main, Germany |
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| All other courses are in-house |
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More detailed information:
Statistics in forensic entomology. 29 September - 2 October 2009, Zentrum der
Rechtsmedizin Frankfort am Main, Germany
 | When: Tuesday 29 September until Friday 2 October 2009 |
 | Where: Zentrum der Rechtsmedizin, Frankfort am Main, Germany |
 | Provisional program: Data exploration, regression, mixed effects modelling,
GAM. |
 | Costs: To be announced |
 | Pre-required knowledge: basic statistics, |
A 5 day data exploration, regression, GLM and GAM course in Coimbra,
Portugal, February 2010.
 | Details will follow |

Course registration
To register for a course, please contact us by email (highstat@highstat.com).
We need to know:
- Your name and address for the invoice.
- Which course you wish to attend
Please read the conditions below before registering.
Conditions:
- All fees are payable 4 weeks in advance and no admission to the course will
be permitted until payment has been received.
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Course literature and software is
copyright protected and may not be reproduced or distributed without
permission.
- For some courses, participants will be given a personal license for the
software package Brodgar. The
license will be valid for a period of 1 year.
- The course content might
be modified or improved prior to the course start date.
- Accommodation (and
lunch and meals) are not included as part of the courses fees and participants
are expected to make their own arrangements.
- Refunds (after deducting a
15% bank and administration fee) will only be given if a place is cancelled
at least 30 days before the start date of the course. A course participant can
be substituted at any time before the start of the course.
- We reserve the
right to cancel any course without liability other than a refund of the full
course fee.
- Unfortunately, we cannot assist with VISA application.
- The courses are designed for biologists and we will only discuss concepts;
no detailed mathematics. As such, these courses are less suitable for
statisticians who wish to learn all the mathematical details.

Calendar

Past, present and future courses
Here is a list of past, present and future courses. In-house courses are only open to
students and members of staff of the organising institute. Open courses can be
attended by anyone.
 | January 2009: In-house PhD course University of Aberdeen, UK. |
 | January 2009: Two in-house courses at IMARES, IJmuiden, The Netherlands |
 | February 2009: In-house course at CSL, York, UK |
 | February 2009: Open course: regression, GLM & GAM. Dep. Zoologia da
Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra. Portugal. |
 | March 2009: Two in-house courses at National Avian Research Center, Abu
Dhabi, UAE. |
 | April 2009: In-house course at NIWA, Auckland, New Zealand |
 | April/May 2009: Three courses at Cawthron, Nelson, New Zealand |
 | June 2009: In-house course at AZTI, Spain |
 | June 2009: In-house course Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (Ciudad Real). |
 | July 2009: In-house course at University of York, UK |
 | August 2009: In-house course at IMR, Bergen, Norway |
 | September 2009: In-house course at UCC, Cork, Ireland. |
 | September/October 2009: Open course: Statistics in forensic entomology,
Zentrum der Rechtsmedizin, Frankfort am Main, Germany. |
 | October 2009: In-house course at IMR, Tromso, Norway |
 | November 2009: In-house course at NIOZ |
 | January 2010: In-house PhD course University of Aberdeen, UK. |
 | February 2010: Open course: regression, GLM & GAM. Dep. Zoologia da
Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra. Portugal. |
And in 2002-2008, we were at:
 | January 2008: In-house PhD course University of Aberdeen, UK. |
 | February 2008: In-house SPSS course University of York, UK. |
 | February 2008: In-house mixed modelling, GLMM and GAMM course at IMARES,
The Netherlands. |
 | March 2008: Open course: regression, GLM & GAM. Dep. Zoologia da
Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra. Portugal. |
 | March 2008: In-house regression GLM & GAM course, University of York,
UK. |
 | April 2008: In-house time series course, IMR, Bergen, Norway. |
 | April 2008: Open course mixed modelling, GLMM and GAMM, Newburgh, UK |
 | May 2008: In-house ECOSUMMER training course. |
 | May 2008: In-house course at CSL in York, UK. 3 open seats available. |
 | June 2008: In-house course: Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (Ciudad Real). |
 | July 2008: In-house regression, GLM & GAM course, AZTI, Spain. |
 | July 2008: Summer School "Statistics in Biology", Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in
Varna, Bulgaria. |
 | September 2008: Open course: Regression and mixed modelling course, CSC, Helsinki, Finland |
 | September 2008: In-house mixed modelling course at UCC, Cork, Ireland. |
 | October 2008: In-house time series course at IMR, Bergen. |
 | October 2008: MSc course at Aberdeen Univertsity. |
 | November 2008: In-house course, University of York, UK. |
 | November 2008: In-house course for BioChange students, Galway, Ireland |
 | December 2008: In-house R course at IMR, Bergen, Norway. |
 | February 2007: In-house course NIOZ, Holland. |
 | February 2007: In-house course Evora, Portugal. |
 | February 2007: In-house course Marine Laboratory, UK. |
 | March 2007: In-house course Marine Laboratory, UK. |
 | March 2007: In-house course NIOZ, Holland. |
 | March 2007: In-house course Newcastle University. |
 | April 2007: Open course regression, GLM & GAM course, Newburgh, UK. |
 | May 2007: Open course mixed modelling, GLMM and GAMM, Newburgh, UK. |
 | May 2007: R course at SAMS, Oban, UK. |
 | May 2007: Marie-Cure training course in Greece: ECOSUMMER
training course |
 | June 2007: UNESCO funded course in Sofia, Bulgaria. Subject: regression, GLM
& GAM. |
 | August 2007: In-house R course in Vigo. |
 | September 2007: In-house course at SAMS, Oban, UK. Subject: Linear mixed
modelling and additive mixed modelling with emphasis on temporal
correlation. |
 | September 2007: In-house course Zoology department in Cork, Ireland. |
 | October 2007: OPEN course: Mixed modelling, Newburgh, UK. |
 | October 2007: In-house course for MSc students at the University of
Aberdeen, UK. |
 | October/November 2007: In-house time series analysis course at IMARES, The
Netherlands. |
 | November 2007: OPEN course; Mexico (a series of 2 courses). |
 | Instituto de Oceanografia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa,
Portugal (2x) |
 | Zoology department in Cork, Ireland. |
 | As part of a Marie-Cure training site: Course in Vigo, Spain: ECOSUMMER
training course |
 | Centro
Interuniversitario di Biologia Marina and Agenzia Regionale per
la Protezione Ambientale della Toscana, Livorno, Italy.
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 | Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. |
 | University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK (7x). |
 | Newburgh, UK (5x). Also with Professor
Ian T. Jolliffe as guest lecture. |
 | Faro, Portugal (4x). |
 | AWI, Helgoland, Germany. |
 | Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Centro de Informática, Tapada da Ajuda,
Lisboa, Portugal. |
 | CNR-ISMAR, Ancona, Italy. |
 | Marine Institute, Ireland (4x). |
 | CORPI, Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania. |
 | Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. |
 | Central Science Laboratory, York, UK (4x). |
 | FRS Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, UK (3x). |
 | Course as part of the EU WESTHER project at the 'Institut fuer
Seefischerei Hamburg', Germany. |
 | FIMR, Helsinki, Finland. |

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