Please see below PhD courses offered by ANIVET that may be of interest to PhDs in AGRO.
From: Gavin L. Simpson <gavin@anivet.au.dk>
Sent: 13 November 2025 12:42
To: Gavin L. Simpson <gavin@anivet.au.dk>
Subject: Statistics Phd courses offered by ANIVET in 2026
Dear colleagues,
Supervisors: please forward to PhD candidates or colleagues who might benefit from taking one or more of the courses.
Further to my email in September, I can confirm the dates for the three PhD courses in applied statistics that I will be offering in 2026:
Each of the courses will take place at the AU Viborg campus and are in person events. There is a small registration fee for each course of DKK400 to cover morning and afternoon refreshments. The
links above for each course are registration links; if you wish to take any of the courses, please register to secure your spot.
The courses will be advertised on the Tech Graduate School PhD course list soon. Brief details on the courses are given below.
The Applied regression modelling course is a slight redesign of the “Mixed Modelling” course I ran in January, with the name change reflecting that the course covers a broader set of models than just mixed effects
ones. It will cover generalised linear models and generalised linear mixed effects models, and include fitting, diagnosing problems with, and interrogating those models to extract parameters and values of interest. This is a general practical modelling course
in R, so will not expect much prior knowledge. The focus will be on the lme4 and glmmTMB packages and using the
marginaleffects package to extract and test values of scientific interest. Details on the previous version of the course are available here:
https://phd.tech.au.dk/for-phd-students/courses/scientific-courses/kurser-2024/animal-science/applied-mixed-modelling-with-r
The Multivariate data analysis course will be like the one I have taught previously but will cover microbiome / sequencing data more in the examples and methods than in previous years.
Details on the previous version of the course are available here: https://phd.tech.au.dk/for-phd-students/courses/scientific-courses/kurser-2024/animal-science/multivariate-analysis-of-biological-data-using-r
The Generalized Additive Models (GAM) course will be very similar to the one I taught in 2024 but updated with some more Animal Science / Vet examples. This course is for anyone interested in modelling non-linear
effects of variables on responses. Details on the previous version of the course are available here:
https://phd.tech.au.dk/for-phd-students/courses/scientific-courses/kurser-2024/animal-science/generalized-additive-modelling-with-r
If you have any questions about the content of these courses, please direct them to me.
Best wishes
Gavin
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