This new cross-disciplinary course will plan to address the following core and companion modules:
Core Modules
- Transform your research with the power of statistics
- Storytelling with data visualisation and exploratory analysis with descriptive statistics
- Probability distributions as approximating models of reality
- Sampling, estimation and generalisation of results
- Evidence-based statistical inference
- The need for reproducibility of results (false positives/negatives)
- Categorical predictors with analysis of variance (ANOVA)
- Explaining the world of variation through linear regression
Companion Modules
- Fundamentals of data management
- Data integrity, research ethics, and open data sources