Overview

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.

Course content

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

You'll also have the opportunity to attend one-to-one and group tuition sessions on the material taught throughout the week.

Social events

As part of the summer school, you can attend a number of free social activities, including an evening reception on the first day, a dinner and a trip to see a musical.

Who this course is for

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

Learning outcomes

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

Certificates

You'll receive a certificate of attendance on completing the course.

Cost and concessions

The standard price is £1,500.

The fee includes:

• a welcome pack
• printed course materials
• refreshments and lunches
• social events

The fee doesn't cover accommodation, which you'll need to arrange yourself.

Cancellations

Refunds won't be given for cancellations made within two weeks of the start date or for non-attendance.

Cancellations made within two to four weeks of the start date will incur a fee of 25%. Please send all cancellation requests directly to the course administrator.

Find out about other statistics courses

CASC's stats courses are suitable for anyone requiring an understanding of research methodology and statistical analyses. The courses allow non-statisticians to interpret published research and/or undertake their own research studies.

Find out more about CASC's full range of statistics courses, and the continuing statistics training scheme (book six one-day courses and get a seventh free.)

Course information last modified: 30 Nov 2022, 16:01