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Introduction to Statistics short course

The HBS builiding
Dates:10 February 2016
Times:All day
What is it:Course
Organiser:Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research
How much:£140 (public sector) £195 (private sector)
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public
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The aims of the course are to familiarise participants with some of the most commonly utilised statistical procedures using IBM SPSS, and to provide an introduction to the theory and methods of inferential statistical analysis using example datasets and exercises. By the end of the day participants will be familiar with how to access and run a range of key statistical procedures and be able to understand and interpret output generated by IBM SPSS.

Objectives

On completing the course, participants will have covered the following: •Drawing inferences about populations from a sample. •The importance of standard errors and confidence intervals. •Hypothesis testing and p-values. •Procedures in IBM SPSS to perform chi-squared tests, t-tests, analysis of variance, correlations, linear regression and logistic regression.

Price: £140 (public sector) £195 (private sector)

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