21 - 22 August, 2019
Course Overview
In many disciplines, researchers wishing to publish are asked to provide a rigorous statistical analysis. Reviewers are often specific about what statistical measures they want included. "Why wasn't Fisher's Exact Test used?" "Was an appropriate sample size determined a priori?"
Statistical analyses require specialised software to perform calculations. In this course, we use the free statistical program R, although researchers may have another statistical package available to them.
How does one decide which statistical procedure is the most appropriate? What do all the pages of the printout mean?
This course is designed as an introduction to statistical design and analysis for researchers. It emphasises understanding the concepts behind statistical procedures (with a minimum of mathematics, although some will be discussed) and on interpreting computer output. This course is designed to help you, the researcher. It is helpful if you have done an undergraduate statistics subject, although this course can serve as a first introduction or a refresher.
There will be plenty of practical work throughout the course.
Do you need to have previous experience using the program R?
It would be very helpful if you have some basic knowledge of R. We recommend our one-day course, Introduction to R (see below), which runs just prior to this course. However, previous experience with statistical packages like SAS, SPSS or Stata and some basic programming skills are also helpful.
Please note that R and R Studio are free to use and are both available for Windows/Mac/Linx platforms. The links are provided below:
You can play around with the software before deciding on the course. Here is a really good website with some introductory notes for doing statistics in R.
An outline of topics included in this course is below (click the "+" on the right).
Requirements: Bring your own laptop computer.
Duration: 2 days, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm daily
Location: UNSW Business School (E12), Level 1, Room 119, UNSW Kensington Campus
Fee
UNSW students: $200
UNSW staff: $400
External Student: $750
External: $1,000
Course fee includes morning tea and lunch.
