Summer School

The Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics organizes for the 8th time the Summer School on Advanced Bayesian Methods, which is on novel Bayesian methods relevant to the applied statistician. Two courses will be organized in Leuven from 14 to 18 September 2026:

• Two-day course (14-15 September) on Bayesian Finite Mixture Analysis by Prof. em. Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
• Three-day course (16-18 September) on Bayesian Smoothing and Distributional Regression by Prof Thomas Kneib and Johannes Brachem (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)

The target audience of the summer school are statisticians and/or epidemiologists with a sound background in statistics, but also with a background in Bayesian methodology. In both courses, practical sessions are organized, so participants are asked to bring along their laptop with the appropriate software (to be announced) pre-installed. The contents of the course and a biosketch of the instructors can be found here.

The registration costs for the courses are:

Early bird registrations (registration up to and including May 31, 2026 and payment before August 1, 2026) enjoy the reduced rate. In any case, registration should be before August 1, 2026 and payment up to and including August 31, 2026 (at the full rate).

If cancelled before 31 July 2026, a full refund will be given.
If cancelled after 31 July 2026 but before 31 August 2026,  a 50% refund will be given.
For cancellations after 31 August 2026, no refund will be given.

For questions about the registration costs, please contact Romy Gentens. For other questions, please contact Emmanuel Lesaffre.