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Summer School on Women, Peace and Security

In 2000, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325, the first in a series of six resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, which not only recognizes the disproportionate impact of armed conflict on women but also stresses the crucial importance of including women in all phases of peace

Good practices in the use of mouse models for biomedical research

The program of the PHENOMIN thematic school consists of invited speakers' talks, work sessions on selected scientific and/or methods issues, oral sessions of the attendees, poster sessions. The school will cover the different fields of mouse phenogenomics, ranging through 5 topics from

Statistical methods for population-based cancer survival analysis

The course will address the principles, methods, and application of statistical methods to studying the survival of cancer patients using data collected by population-based cancer registries. We cover central concepts, such as how to estimate and model relative survival, as well as recent

Introduction to Social and Biological Networks

Network analysis can be used to study how pathogens spread in contact networks, or how behaviors to counter illnesses diffuse in social networks. This course introduces some essential network concepts and covers the basics of the Python programming language to analyze networks and to simulate

Applied Logistic Regression

This course introduces students to the practice and application of logistic regression modeling for binary outcomes. Students will fit, evaluate, and interpret binary data models arising from epidemiological studies, clinical trials, or other application areas. Topics include assessment of

Epidemiology I

This course provides an introduction to the skills needed by public health professionals and clinicians to critically interpret the epidemiologic literature. It will provide participants with the basic principles and practical experience needed to develop these skills. This will be accomplished by

Quantile Methods

The statistical methods for the analysis of the median and other percentiles of an outcome of interest are becoming increasingly popular in medical research. They provide great scientific insight and represent a useful alternative to other traditional methods when the latter may not be valid. The

Applied Linear Regression

The course introduces students to the practice and application of regression modeling. Through the use of Stata%C2%AE, students will learn how to fit a regression, estimate, and test regression coefficients. Particular emphasis will be placed on the interpretation of the regression coefficients of

Biostatistics I

Introduces the fundamental principles of statistics applied to biomedicine. The topics to be covered include: descriptive statistics, measures of central tendency, probability, diagnostic testing, population and sample, comparison of proportions. At the end of the course, students will be able to

Summer School in Empirical Research Methods 2015

In 2015, SSERM offers 23 high-level courses from 8-19 June and 4 optional courses outside the June period. In order to guarantee the best possible preparation and assure a similar level of knowledge we decided to offer 3 workshop lectures from 3-6 June.As a special service to our participants we