Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis: an Introduction (Summer School)

University College London

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In London

£ 1,500 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    21h

  • Duration

    5 Days

This five-day summer school will help you interpret published research and perform basic statistical analysis.
You'll learn research and quantitative skills - this will enable you to make your own judgements about research results and understand their true meanings.
This course is delivered by UCL's Centre for Applied Statistics Courses (CASC) - part of the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH).

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Start date

On request

About this course

By the end of this course you should be able to:
set out a plan of analysis for a research question, accounting for all types of data involved and aspects of the question
choose the best way of graphically displaying data and results
choose the significance tests suitable to answer a research question
use results to make inferences about the wider population of interest and answer a research question

You don't need any knowledge of statistical analysis to attend this course.

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Subjects

  • Data analysis
  • Types of data
  • Bootstrapping
  • Statistical analysis
  • Graphical displays
  • Categorical data
  • Hypothesis
  • Study design
  • Design
  • Sampling

Course programme

The course will cover the following topics:

  • How to develop a sound research question
  • Study design, sampling and confounding
  • Types of data
  • Graphical displays of data and results
  • Summarising numeric and categorical data
  • Quantifying differences and associations between groups
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Confidence intervals and p-values
  • Parametric and non-parametric statistical tests
  • Bootstrapping
  • Introduction to regression

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