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The University of Washington Department of Biostatistics 2025 Summer Institutes will begin in early July. All courses are offered online only (no in-person option).
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Institutes & Dates
Summer Institute in Statistics for Clinical and Epidemiological Research (SISCER)
July 8 - July 31, 2025
Live virtual sessions will be held 8:30 a.m. to noon PDT (11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. EDT) unless noted otherwise
- Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials, Tuesday, July 8 – Thursday, July 10
- Analyzing Data from Complex Surveys, Tuesday, July 8 – Wednesday, July 9 (afternoons 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. PDT; 4-7:30 p.m. EDT)
- Modern Statistical Learning for Observational Data, Tuesday, July 8 – Friday, July 11
- Introduction to Survival Analysis, Thursday, July 10 – Friday, July 11 (afternoons 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. PDT; 4 - 7:30 p.m. EDT)
- Special Topics in Clinical Trials: Interpreting Exploratory Analysis & When Are Biomarkers Valid Surrogates?, Friday, July 11
- Improving Precision and Power in Randomized Trials by Leveraging Baseline Variables, Monday, July 14 – Tuesday, July 15
- Generalized Estimating Equations and Mixed-Effects Models for Longitudinal Data Analysis, Monday, July 14 – Wednesday, July 16
- Design and Analysis of Two-Phase Studies, Wednesday, July 16 – Thursday, July 17 (afternoons 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. PDT; 4 - 7:30 p.m. EDT)
- Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data, Thursday, July 17 – Friday, July 18
- Evaluation of Biomarkers and Risk Models, Monday, July 21 – Tuesday, July 22
- Using Causal Graphs in Epidemiological Research, Tuesday, July 22
- Absolute Risk: Methods and Applications in Clinical Care and Public Health, Wednesday, July 23 – Thursday, July 24
- Causal Inference with Observational Data: Common Designs and Statistical Methods, Wednesday, July 23 – Friday, July 25
- Missing Data Methods, Monday, July 28 - Tuesday, July 29
- Irregular Assessment Times in Randomized Controlled Trials, Wednesday July 30 - Thursday, July 31
- Propensity Scores, Wednesday, July 30 - Thursday, July 31
Summer Institute in Statistics for Big Data (SISBID)
July 21 – August 1, 2025
- Data Wrangling with R, Monday, July 21 – Wednesday, July 23 (morning)
- Data Visualization , Wednesday, July 23 (afternoon) – Friday, July 25
- Supervised Methods for Statistical Machine Learning, Monday, July 28 – Wednesday, July 30 (morning)
- Unsupervised Methods for Statistical Machine Learning, Wednesday, July 20 (afternoon) – Friday, August 1
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Course titles for 2025 will be posted soon.
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Other Institutes
The Bruce Weir Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG) will be held in person at the Georgia Institute of Technology, May 28 – June 13, 2025.
The Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling for Infectious Diseases (SISMID) will be online July 7-11, 2025, and in person at Emory University, July 14 - 30, 2025. Scholarship applications open February 17.