Advanced Training in Statistical Methods
Live 2-Week Course | April 7 - 18, 2025
Who should attend?
This course is geared toward individuals early in their research career, typically graduate students, postdoctoral fellow, and very junior faculty. We have also accepted exception undergraduate students.
The focus of this two-week course is to learn advanced statistical methods applied to neuroimaging and genetics, within the context of biomarker discovery. This is not an introductory course, and will teach advanced topics of Bayesian methods in neuroimaging, network science in neuroimaging, statistical genetics, and multi-modal predictive modeling.
Course attendees are expected to already have experience with aspects of neuroimaging analysis and/or genetics. An innovation to our course is the additional 6-month follow-up, where attendees of the course have the opportunity to meet as a group with each lecturer for a 75-minute webinar-based workshop each month. This will allow course attendees to interact with the course faculty well after the two-week period. Additionally, the course attendees will have access to a slack help-line for questions surrounding implementation of methods.
This course is supported by federal funding from the National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R25NS117281).
Dates, Application Process, and Cost
To ensure the highest quality of instruction, the course is limited to approximately 25 attendees each year. Because of the limited size, attendance is by application only. In general, applicants must be a US citizen or permanent resident, though we do have the ability to accommodate 1 to 3 individuals that do not meet this criteria.
Course Dates
April 7 - 18, 2025
In-residence attendees should arrive April 6
Location
University Guest House & Conference Center
110 South Fort Douglas Blvd
Salt Lake City, UT 84113-5036
Application Deadlines
Priority Deadline
Friday, October 25, 2024
Decisions will be made by Friday, December 13, 2024
Late Deadline
Friday, November 22, 2024
Decisions will be made by Friday, January 3, 2025
Course Cost
In-residence $2250
There are a limited number of need-based travel awards available
Course Structure
The course will be taught April 7 - 18, 2025. It is structured with theoretical lectures that are paired with hands-on computer practical labs and tutorials. Days start at 8:30 am (US Mountain Time) and are expected to be 7 hours (with breaks). Some days have an additional evening guest lectureship.
Topics That Will Be Covered
CONTACT US
If you have questions or need additional information, email our team at neurostats@g.ucla.edu.