A Review of Basic Statistics
Course outline
This course builds up the basic ideas of statistics systematically and quickly. It provides an introduction to methods of summarising and presenting data, estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Mathematical details are kept to a minimum.
Much of the course is practical work on PCs using accessible and user-friendly statistical packages such as GenStat, Minitab, R, SAS, SPSS and Stata. Instat, a package developed by the SSC, can also be used - it is provided free to course participants. Microsoft® Excel® may, too, be used - this requires use of SSC-Stat, our Excel add-in, which is also freely available to course participants.
Who should attend?
Scientists and technologists who have had some previous training in statistics but who now wish to understand basic statistical ideas more thoroughly.
How you will benefit
This course provides a practical introduction to statistical methods. There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion with course staff on appropriate methods of analysing data and help will be provided with interpreting results.
Course content
- Descriptive statistics - graphical and numerical summarisation of data
- Introduction to a statistical package
- Distributions - binomial and normal
- Sampling distribution of the mean
- The t-distribution
- Confidence intervals
- Hypothesis testing ideas; single-sample and two-sample problems; t-tests
- Paired samples - their analysis and importance
- Estimating and testing for proportions.
Dates: 5-6 March 2012; 16-17 July 2012; 1-2 October 2012; 27-28
November 2012
Duration: 2 days
Price: £595
Discounts: An Academic discount
is available for this course
Discounts are also available in conjunction with the follow-on courses
listed below.
Follow-on courses: Regression Analysis:
A Hands-on Approach; Introduction to Analysis
of Variance (ANOVA); and What Sample
Size Do I Need?.
Last updated: 9 January, 2012
