e-Learning
Applications are invited for:
e-SMS: Statistics Made Simple
A statistics foundation course. 23 January - 18 March 2012 and 10 September - 4 November 2012.
Learn at your own pace with this innovative on-line course: Whether you need a course that starts from scratch or want to become more confidence in statistics, this course meets your needs.
- Aimed at people who require a foundation course in statistics for
research
- Accomodate learning around your busy work schedule
- Fully facilitated with student to tutor interaction
- Peer to peer online forums and interaction
- Aims to teach conceptual understanding
- Geared to practical applications
- Average margin of improvement of students is +110%
- Choice of 5 statistics packages.
Course topics
- Understanding variability
- Describing data:summary statistics and charts
- Making good generalisations:standard errors
- What's a P-value? Hypothesis tests
- What's a statistical model? Linear regression
- Producing a model statistical report.
Applications are also invited for:
e-SIAC: Statistics in Applied Climatology
Open to all users of climatic data. Scheduled to start in February 2012.
Course outline
Topic 1: About SIAC and its aims; getting started with e-learning
Topic 2: Using the statistical software package Instat
Topic 3: Acquiring and preparing daily datasets for analysis
Topic 4: Producing a standard report or presentation
Break of 2, 3 or 4 weeks
Topic 5: Thinking statistically: describing data well (descriptive
statistical methods)
Topic 6: Turning data into information: tailoring products for
specific applications
Topic 7: Thinking statistically: making generalizations (statistical
inference and modelling)
Topic 8: Preparing a portfolio of products; working with the public
Last updated: 4 January, 2012
