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Highland Statistics Ltd was founded more than 25 years ago by Dr. Alain F. Zuur (statistician). The company is based in Scotland and provides statistical courses and consultancy.
Statistics courses
An interdisciplinary team consisting of Dr. Alain F. Zuur (statistician) and Dr. Elena N. Ieno (biologist) offers 20 to 25 statistical courses per year, both online and onsite. The courses are non-technical and focus on the practical application of a wide range of statistical techniques. See this pdf file for a detailed description.
In a hybrid course, we teach both onsite participants and online attendees simultaneously. Below are our upcoming hybrid and live Zoom courses :
- Online live: Data Exploration, Regression, GLM & GAM with an introduction to R. 16-20 June 2025.
- Hybrid: Introduction to GLLVM. With spatial and temporal dependency. 22 -26 September 2025. IPMA, Lisbon, Portugal. Course flyer.
- Online live: GLMs and GAMs with Spatial, Temporal or Spatial-Temporal Correlation using R-INLA. 6-10 October 2025. Course flyer.
- Online live: Introduction to GLLVM. With spatial and temporal dependency. 8-12 December 2025. Course flyer.
Join a hybrid or live Zoom course
Self-study courses
We also provide 9 different self-study courses with on-demand video.
Click on "Read More" to see a list of our on-demand courses.
If you are interested in a summer school on GLLVM in Norway, please visit: https://bertv.folk.ntnu.no/index.html. The summer school is titled Model-Based Multivariate Analysis for Ecologists and will take place from July 21–25, 2025. Please note that we are not affiliated with this event.
Hello Australia — after running courses in 2014, 2015, and 2016 at Murdoch University, AIMS, UNSW, IMAS, Deakin University, CSIRO, the University of Adelaide, CDU (Alice Spring, Townsville and Cairns), Sidney University, and the NT Dept. of Land Resource Management, we think it is time to come back. We’re hoping to run a couple of advanced stats courses in your part of the world again. Fancy hosting one?
Books
Our course material is based on a series of 14 statistical textbooks. Three books were published by Springer. One book has been translated into Chinese and Japanese.
We offer a "View-only" package for university and institutional libraries. Get access to all our books for all your employees.
Scientific papers
We have contributed to a large number of scientific papers, which has resulted in a long list of co-authored papers. In particular, we are first-authors of one of the most cited and downloaded papers in ecology: A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems. Zuur et al. (2010). This paper is labeled as a 'Hot Paper' in the field of Environment/Ecology by Science Watch at Thomson Reuters.
Consultancy
Highland Statistics provides statistical consultancy in various forms, e.g. help with paper submission or referee comments, guidance with statistical analyses, or analysis of data. Our input can be anything from a few hours to large projects of 50+ days. Our customers include the United Nations, NIOZ, Wageningen University, Institute of Marine Research, DFO, JNCC, Rijkswaterstaat, DEWLP, among many others.
Research
It seems like nobody comes to us for the easy stuff! Half of our consultancy work dives into territories where off-the-shelf methods just don’t cut it, often turning our projects into full-blown statistical research. And more often than not, these brain teasers end up as scientific papers!