Overview
Publication date: July 2014
Core activities: 12.5 hours
This programme will:
- Give students an introduction to the statistical modelling process
- Introduce students to statistical thinking and how to describe data
- Help students use statistics to make good generalisations
- Show how statistics can be used for hypothesis testing
- Focus on practical statistical modelling
- Show hypothesis testing on proportions and how to interpret the results.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Introduction to Statistics in the context of research
- Course 2: Describing data well
- Course 3: Making good generalisations
- Course 4: Which hypothesis should I use?
- Course 5: Statistical modelling
- Course 6: Analysis of categorical data
- Course 7: Conclusion
Author: Sandro Leidi
Senior Statistician, University of Reading