Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course 2025

Why Regression Modeling?
Course Notes
1-day Pre-Course
Pre-Course Study
Zoom Preparation

The next 4-day course is planned for Thursday-Friday May 15-16 and Monday-Tuesday May 19-20, 2025.

Do you need

A statistical modeling tune-up or to learn about modern flexible methods for developing and validating predictive models?
To understand the advantages and disadvantages of machine learning relative to statistical models?
To know the importance of causal inference in formulating models?

The only full Regression Modeling Strategies 4-day course offered this year covers a comprehensive strategy for developing accurate predictive models, model specification that preserves information, quantifying predictive accuracy, avoiding overfitting, data reduction (unsupervised learning), making optimum use of incomplete data, validation, the art of data analysis, comprehensive case studies, and more.

The RMS 4-day short course will be held as a virtual course on May 15-16 and 19-20, 2025. This will be a very interactive live web course using Zoom with registration fees that are significantly reduced over the traditional yearly in-person course. Registration opens March 9 (see below). The course includes case studies using R.

Participants who wish to learn more about R, or to be refreshed in the prequisite regression knowledge for the 4-day course, may wish to register separately for the optional and auxiliary one-day Pre-RMS workshop on May 12 (see below) to enhance R and RStudio skills, learn about multiple linear regression (a prerequisite for the 4-day course), and to get an introduction to the R rms package.

The 4-day course will not require you to use R interactively.

About the Course

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Four-day Short Course in Regression Modeling Strategies by

Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Instructor
Drew G. Levy, Ph.D., GoodScience Inc., Guest Instructor and Moderator

Target Audience

Statisticians and other quantitative researchers who want to learn some general predictive model development strategies, including approaches to missing data imputation, data reduction, model specification and variable selection, model validation, relaxing linearity assumptions, and how to choose between machine learning and statistical models.

Prerequisites

Good working knowledge of ordinary multiple regression models. Some individuals will want to take the free Biostatistics for Biomedical Research course in preparation (especially sessions on regression). Or take the 1-day workshop to learn the prequisites (concentrating on multiple linear regression) for the 4-day course.

Required pre-course study materials are here.

Details

Schedule

All times are U.S. Central Daylight Time (Chicago Time)

Day	Date	Time	Description
Saturday	May 10	9a-10a	optional Zoom test session
Monday	May 12	9a-12p, 1p-4p	optional workshop on R and prerequisites
Thursday	May 15	9a-12p, 1p-4p	begin 4-day RMS course
Friday	May 16	9a-12p, 1p-4p
Monday	May 19	9a-12p, 1p-4p
Tuesday	May 20	9a-12p, 12:30p-3p

Registration Information for 4-Day Course

Live Participation in 4-day RMS Course

Registration opens Sunday March 9, 2025 and is expected to close on May 10. Click the above link to register and, if you are in a category that is charged, to pay (only credit cards are accepted). Please email interest/questions to fh@fharrell.com.

Course Fees for 4-day Course (Credit Cards Only)

VUMC, VU and MMC Students and Post-docs $125
VUMC, VU and MMC Faculty and Staff $280
Other Students with documentation of current status $280
Students and staff of nonprofit and government institutions residing in a World Bank-designated lower-middle income country, and citizens of such countries who are temporarily studying abroad, persons living in Ukraine or having to flee Ukraine $100
Current US federal employees or US federal employees laid off since 2025-01-20 (including contractors working for USAID) $150
Other Members of Non-Profit Institutions and Government Agencies $450
Members of For-Profit Institutions $1150
Members of nonprofit organizations who have a pre-approved reduced rate for registering 10 or more $350
No charge to Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics faculty, staff and students (student status will be checked) or Vanderbilt faculty who have served on Biostatistics dissertation committees

Pre-RMS: Introduction to R, RStudio, Regression, and the R `rms` Package

1-Day Workshop

Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Instructor

Drew G. Levy, Ph.D., GoodScience Inc., Moderator

For those new to R who want to learn about resources for taking your working knowledge of R to the next level (note that knowledge of R is not a prerequisite for the 4-day course but will make example code easier to understand).
Also for those who have had some real exposure to statistics but who lack the regression model background for the 4-day course. The workshop introduces simple and multiple linear regression using material from Biostatistics for Biomedical Research.
Learn how to use the R rms package to make common tasks easy to do, e.g., relaxing linearity assumptions, getting useful statistical tests (including multiple degree of freedom “chunk” tests) and confidence intervals.
Get a quick introduction to Quarto for state-of-the-art reproducible statistical report construction.
Get a quick introduction to some other components of R Workflow that help you in annotating datasets and achieving a high-efficiency analysis workflow.
Course description

Course Fees for `R` Pre-RMS Workshop Monday May 12, 2025 9:00am - 4:30pm CDT

VUMC, VU and MMC Faculty, Staff, Students, and Post-docs $50
No charge to Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics faculty, staff and students or Vanderbilt faculty on Biostatistics dissertation committees
Students at other universities $80
Students and staff residing in a World Bank-designated lower-middle income country, citizens of such countries temporarily studying abroad, persons living in Ukraine or having to flee Ukraine $30
Employees of the U.S. federal government, or US government employees laid off on 2025-01-20 or later 40$
Other Members of Non-Profit Institutions and Government Agencies $160
Members of For-Profit Institutions $400
To register: click here.

Videos of the 4-Day Course

Video recordings of the May 2025 course are now available and may be purchased using the link below. Free access to the videos was already provided to registrants for the May course.

Live participants will be given free access to course videos. For those in certain time zones that make live participation possible only for part of each session, the video recording of each day’s session will be available by 8am CDT the morning after the session.

If you do not want to take any of the live course, you may wish to purchase videos of the 2025 course.

Registration for the videos entitles participants to obtain high-priority answers to statistical modeling questions from the instructors for up to three weeks after registration.

Accepted Payments

Credit card
No other forms of payment are accepted. Paypal is not accepted.

Materials

1-day Pre-course details
Pre-course study for 4-day course
Handouts
Dr. Harrell’s Book - REGRESSION MODELING STRATEGIES with Applications to Linear Models, Logistic and Ordinal Regression, and Survival Analysis
Causal Models for Variable Selection by Drew Griffin Levy
Full semester course syllabus
An introduction to the Harrell”verse” by Nicholas Ollberding
Biostatistics for Biomedical Research
R Workflow

This course is not under the auspices of Vanderbilt University.