All Courses
On this page you can find all the courses and tracks offered by the Utrecht Summer School. Detailed information is published on all individual course pages.
23 course(s) found
Data Science in Clinical Practice
Online course
Careful data curation and analyses are essential in developing machine learning algorithms, that may usefully contribute to solving problems encountered in routine healthcare. Nevertheless, many valuable contributions never transition from the computer to the bedside. Often implementation is never attempted, or they fail to get the relevant CE marking (or equivalent local standard), or their implementation fails to elicit the intended health…
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Data Stewardship
Online course
Did you ever wonder how you can improve your data management and handling? Have you ever hoped for a clean and indisputable database that you could easily share with your collaborators? Understand the art of Data Stewardship and get a handle on your data! Data could yield great value when processed intelligently for medical data science but holds great risks when processing is lost in complexity. This online Data Stewardship course will guide…
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Collaborative Data Science
Online course
Data science relies on working across datasets, teams, disciplines and geographies. Collaboration is crucial, as well as key frameworks. In order to be translatable to patient care, the learning health systems framework helps to conceptualize where healthcare data sits in science, care and evidence domains. Knowledge of key competencies and professions in informatics and data science will facilitate team working. Moreover, without awareness of…
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Eye Tracking Research Toolbox
Eye tracking is a powerful method to study the human mind and behavior. This course will allow you to explore key concepts in eye tracking research and help you integrate it in your study. The course is divided into two components: (1) a conceptual framework to help you make better decisions when planning and executing a study, allowing you to turn eye tracking data into valuable insights; (2) a practical introduction to the challenges and trade…
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Introduction to Multilevel Analysis
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
This course will teach you the theoretical basics of multilevel modelling and some important methodological and statistical issues. You will also learn how to analyse multilevel data sets with the HLM, Mplus and R programmes, to interpret the output and to report the results. The benefits of multilevel analysis are discussed both in theory as with…
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Survey Research: Design, Implementation and Data Processing
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
Changes in technology and society strongly influence modern survey research. This course covers the essentials of modern survey methodology, organized by the Department of Methodology and Statistics. Central to the course is survey quality and the reduction of Total Survey Error (coverage, sampling, nonresponse, including questionnaire and mode effects…
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Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis
The aim of this course is to give students insight into current developments in pharmaceutical policy making as well to give a better understanding of the methods available for analysing the effects of policy interventions.
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Structural Equation Modelling in Mplus
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in 2023.
If you expect to work with the software Mplus, this course can help you to get started! This online course is a compact 1-day workshop introducing Mplus. We will focus on preparing data for Mplus, introducing common model syntax, avoiding common mistakes, interpreting output, and dealing with common error messages. Practice exercises demonstrate multiple regression…
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Advanced Multilevel Analysis
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
This three-day course will teach you advanced topics in multilevel modelling. It builds upon the contents of the other summer school course “Introduction to multilevel analysis”. It consists of three days with lectures in the morning and computer labs in the afternoon. After taking this course, you should be able to analyse more complex multilevel…
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Data Science: Applied Text Mining
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
This course introduces the basic and advanced concepts and ideas in text mining and natural language processing. In this course, students will learn how to apply text mining methods on text data and analyse them in a pipeline with machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The course has a strongly practical hands-on focus, and students will gain…
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Biostatistics for Researchers
The course provides an introduction in statistical methodology for life sciences and discusses a number of statistical techniques for practical data analysis. Concrete examples and case studies are used to apply the theory to practical situations.
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Advanced Course on using Mplus
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
This is a five-day course on structural equation modelling (SEM) using Mplus. If you already know how to analyse your data in Mplus but want to learn more about what you are actually doing, and especially if you want to know more about advanced longitudinal analyses, this course is for you. The course consists of in-depth lectures on the fundamentals…
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Data Science: Statistical Programming with R
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
This course offers an elaborate introduction to statistical programming with R. Students learn to operate R, form pipelines for data analysis, make high quality graphics, fit, assess, and interpret a variety of statistical models, and do advanced statistical programming. The statistical theory in this course covers t-testing, regression models for…
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Data Science: Data Analysis
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
The course Data science: Data Analysis offers a range of techniques and algorithms from statistics, machine learning and data mining to make predictions about future events and to uncover hidden structures in data. The course has a strong practical focus: participants actively learn how to apply these techniques to real data and how to interpret…
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Environmental Epidemiology
This course provides participants with insight in the principles and important issues of environmental and occupational epidemiology. Participants should have basic understanding of epidemiological principles and biostatistics and have an interest in environmental health issues. Current theory in environmental epidemiology will be illustrated in current and emerging topics. The two-week course consists of active classes, computer practicals and…
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Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling using Mplus
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
We offer a 5-day course on how to perform basic SEM analyses using Mplus. The main objective of this course is to learn how to analyse several models with Mplus (e.g., path models, multiple group models, mediation and moderation, confirmatory factor analysis, and longitudinal models). No previous knowledge of Mplus is assumed, but prior knowledge of…
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A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
This course introduces all the essential ingredients needed to start Bayesian inference or model selection. We discuss specifying priors, obtaining the posterior, prior/posterior predictive checking, and sensitivity analyses. We also discuss evaluating hypotheses via the Bayes Factor, using information criteria and aggregating evidence from multiple…
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The Early Church as Ideal: Old Catholic Theology beyond the Basics
This course offers the possibility to deepen your knowledge of Old Catholic theology by thematic and in-depth case-driven classes, linked to a key starting point of Old Catholic theology: the faith and order of the Early Church. How can a modern church be so ‘traditional’ at the same time? This apparent tension and paradox will be the core theme of this weeklong, intensive course. The course will be taught by experts in Old Catholic theology…
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The Posthuman Life of Methods
The course will build on the tradition of neo-materialist, critical feminist posthuman theory that Braidotti is internationally known for. It focusses on the methodological implications of posthuman scholarship in the Humanities across a broad inter-disciplinary range. The course offers a selected overview of the key literature in fields that include philosophy, literature, law, media, pedagogy, postcolonial theory and the arts. Mindful of the…
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3D Printing and Biofabrication
Additive manufacturing (3D printing) uses a layer-by-layer principle for manufacturing. This one-week course will provide insight into the opportunities of additive manufacturing technologies and 3D (bio)printing in biomedical applications. It will deliver the basics of 3D printing, including hands-on workshops with 3D printers, in which the students will interact with experts demonstrating the working principles and applications of multiple…
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Survey Research: Statistical Analysis and Estimation
This course has already taken place in 2022. It will be available again in the Summer of 2023.
The course is based on a total survey error perspective and discusses the major sources of survey error. Participants will be presented with tools for detection and adjustment of such errors. Analysis methods are introduced using both SPSS and R. Topics include complex sampling, nonresponse adjustment, measurement error, analysis of incomplete data and…
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Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
The course will provide insight in study design and analysis in pharmacoepidemiologic and drug safety research. Methodological issues are presented in the context of decision making on medicines. The course takes a multi-stakeholder perspective and applies educational approaches to facilitate interaction between these stakeholders among the participants. It is an intensive programme which covers many relevant topics concerning…
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Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
This summer course will provide a comprehensive overview of maternal, newborn and child health globally. With an enthusiastic team of experts from all over the world, we will discuss the major challenges which women and children in the world are facing, and we will look at potential solutions. This programme is a collaboration between the University Medical Center Utrecht (Julius Global Health, Wilhemina Children's Hospital), Amsterdam Centre…
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