This course aims to give a brief overview of study design and provide and introduction to statistics.
Provide students with the skills and knowledge to:
- Understand various commonly used study designs and the associated strengths and weaknesses.
- Recognise some common types of sampling methodologies.
- Identify possible sources of bias and confounding.
- Distinguish between different types of data.
- Understand the difference between samples and populations and how sample statistics can be used to estimate population characteristics.
- Compute basic descriptive statistics (such as mean, median, mode, variance and IQR) and create some commonly used graphs (such as boxplots, histograms and scatterplots).
- Assess which methods for summarising a data set are most appropriate.
Target Audience: All postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
Booking: Please provide your details here if you wish to attend. Once you provide your details you are registered for the course.