Centre for Statistics

The Centre for Statistics (Statistics@SLU) is a resource available to the entire university and a joint platform for statisticians working at SLU. The center in its current form was founded in 2011 to contribute to quality assurance of research at SLU through statistical support and consultancy The centre offers:

Free statistical consultancy to all SLU employees, regardless of faculty
Workshops and seminars to connect researchers with a common interest in a specific area of statistics
PhD courses in statistics

Statistical consultation

Get help with questions on statistical issues or hard to understand comments on statistics from a reviewer.

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Courses in statistics

Statistics@SLU regularly gives PhD courses in statistics with strong data analysis components.

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Workshops & seminar series

Statistics at SLU holds annual seminar series and workshops on different statistical subjects.

Calendar

UPPSALA | 2025-09-29 08.00 - 2025-10-28 17.00

Statistics I: Basic Statistics

The course will be given in Uppsala September 29th - October 28th.
ONLINE | 2025-11-10 08.00 - 2025-12-12 16.00

Statistics III: Regression analysis

The course will be given online November 10th - December 12th
ONLINE | 2025-11-27 09.00 - 2025-11-28 12.00

Introduction to Image Classification and Object Detection in Agriculture and Natural Sciences

Two day workshop: Introduction to Image Classification and Object Detection in Agriculture and Natural Sciences with R and Python
ONLINE | 2026-01-07 08.00 - 2026-02-06 17.00

Statistics II: Analysis of experiments using mixed-effects models

The course is given online January 7th through February 6th.
UMEÅ | 2026-03-02 - 2026-04-02

Statistics I: Basic Statistics

The course is given in Umeå March 2nd - April 2nd.
ONLINE | 2026-03-09 08.00 - 2026-04-10 17.00

Introduction to machine learning

The course is given online March 9th through April 10th
UPPSALA | 2026-04-20 08.00 - 2026-06-10 17.00

Statistics IV: Generalized linear models

The course is given in Uppsala, April 20th through June 10th.
ALNARP | 2026-04-20 - 2026-05-06

Statistics I: Basic Statistics

The course is given in Alnarp, April 20th through May 6th.

News

2025-10-21

Mohammad Ghorbani joins Statistics@SLU

Statistics@SLU is pleased to welcome a new consultant starting in September 2026: Associate Professor Mohammad Ghorbani from the Department of Biosystems and Technology in Alnarp.
2025-10-21

Docent lecture on Artificial Intelligence for early disease detection

On October 14 Reza Belaghi, member of Statistics@SLU and consultant in Uppsala, held his docent lecture titled: Artificial Intelligence for Early Disease Detection: Bridging Human, Animal, and Environmental Health.
2025-06-24

Annual meeting of the Centre for statistics at Alnarp

On the 16th and 17th of June twelve statisticians and mathematicians met at the Alnarp campus to discuss current matters in consultancy, organisation, teaching and research.

Publications

Publications from researchers associated with Statistics@SLU

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