Venue
Course
Summary
The Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX
The purpose of the course is to help delegates understand some basic statistical concepts and develop a strategy for approaching a simple data analysis. The course will introduce basic concepts such as hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation. It will provide the tools to undertake a simple analysis of a dataset and include some helpful hints and tips for reading and understanding reported statistics.
Learning
Outcomes
By the end of this course, attendees will understand basic approaches to statistical inference including hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation. They will be equipped with the skills necessary to undertake simple analyses and to understand some of the basic terms often used to report statistical results. The course will mainly use calculations by hand to aid understanding but will include Excel and/or SPSS output for some statistical tests.
Topics
Covered
Target
Audience
Day 1: The normal distribution; Basic study design; Data Summary; Confidence intervals;
Introduction to hypothesis tests; Analysis of contingency tables – chi-squared test.
Day 2: T-tests; Non-parametric tests, (Wilcoxon signed rank test, Mann-Whitney U test); Correlation and regression; Basic presentation of data and results.
This course is aimed at those who have either never undertaken a formal statistics course, or who may have studied some statistics in the past but wish to undertake a refresher. It is ideal for statistical novices who may have never had any formal training but are starting to encounter statistics in their work and wish to gain some insight.
Knowledge
Assumed
No statistics knowledge is necessary but a good pass in GCSE Maths would be helpful.
Course
Format
On each day, registration begins at 9:00 and the course runs from 9:30 until 16:30 on both days.
The course will be made up of lectures, tutorials and group work sessions.
Delegate
Feedback
Fees
Contact
“Ellen and Jenny were extremely knowledgeable. They were also approachable and happy to give further explanations when necess ary”.
“Excellent course. Hard to fault. I can see why it's popular.”
“This was a fantastic course, the presenters had a very high knowledge but could 'dumb it down' for me as I am new to this”.
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8 January 2016
£562.50+vat
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£450+vat
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8 January 2016
£625+vat
£531.25+vat
£500+vat
Tessa Pearson, Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7614 3947 Email: courses@rss.org.uk
Fax: +44 (0)20 7614 3905
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** Non members are welcome to join the Society at the same time as registering for the course and the discount received will cover the cost of their first subscription payment. More information about membership can be found at www.rss.org.uk/join

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