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SUMMARY:Royal Statistical Society Course - Basic Statistics: Understandin
 g & Analysing Data
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DESCRIPTION:A two-day foundation course delivered by the Royal Statistica
 l Society in partnership with methods@manchester\n\nCourse Outline\n\nTh
 e purpose of this course is to help participants understand some basic s
 tatistical concepts and develop a strategy for approaching simple data a
 nalysis. The course will introduce basic concepts such as hypothesis and
  confidence interval estimation. It will provide the tools to undertake 
 simple analysis of a data set and will include some helpful hints and ti
 ps for reading and understanding reported statistics.\n\nLearning Outcom
 es\n\nBy the end of the course\, participants will understand basic appr
 oaches to statistical inference. They will be equipped with the skills n
 ecessary to undertake simple analyses and to understand some of the basi
 c terms often used to report statistical results. The course will mainly
  use calculations by hand to aid understanding\, but will include Excel 
 for some statistical results.\nTopics Covered\n\nDay 1: The normal distr
 ibution\, basic study design\, data summary\, confidence intervals\, int
 roduction to hypothesis tests\, analysis of contingency tables -- the ch
 i-squared test.\n\nDay 2: T-tests\, non-parametric tests\, (Wilcoxon sig
 ned rank test\, Mann-Whitney U test)\, correlation and regression\, basi
 c presentation of data and results.\nTarget Audience\n\nThis course is a
 imed at those who have either never undertaken a formal statistics cours
 e\, or those who have studied some statistics in the past but wish to un
 dertake a refresher. It is ideal for statistical novices who have never 
 had any formal training but are starting to encounter statistics in thei
 r work and wish to gain some insight.\nAssumed Knowledge\n\nNo prior kno
 wledge is assumed.\n\n\nFees  	 \n\nRegistration before\n12 August 2019\
 n	                                  \nNon Member  £596+vat \n\nRSS Fello
 w £507+vat \n\nRSS CStat: also MIS\, FIS & GradStat £478+vat\n	  	\nRegi
 stration on/after\n12 August 2019\n\nNon Member £663+vat \n\nRSS Fellow 
 £563+vat \n\nRSS CStat: also MIS\, FIS & GradStat £530+vat\n	 \n\nMultip
 le booking discounts available for bookings of 3 or more places - please
  contact training@rss.org.uk for further information\n\nWe accept invoic
 e and card payments
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Room 4/5 Manchester Meeting Place\, Manchester Meeting Place
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