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The Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University and the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo are pleased to open admission for the RES/PROJECT SUMMER SCHOOL 2015 on theme: %E2%80%9CDemocracy, Expertise and Power: Making a New Europe in the Era of Globalisation%E2%80%9D.

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This course introduces methods and tools necessary for monitoring and evaluating public health programs during routine public health activities as well as during large scale emergencies and public health crisis. The course will use the case based teaching method developed by the Harvard Business

The course introduces the concepts and methods for the analysis of survival or time-to-event data. The concepts include censoring, cumulative incidence, median survival and other survival percentiles, and rates. The methods include life-table, Kaplan-Meier survival curve, log-rank and related

This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the foundations of biostatistics and of the various statistical techniques that have been developed to answer research questions in the health sciences. Students will be introduced to methods for the comparison of outcome

This course focuses on methods for analyzing longitudinal and repeated measures data. The defining feature of longitudinal studies is that measurements of the same individuals are taken repeatedly through time, thereby allowing the direct study of change over time. This type of study design