For course enquiries contact Sonia Gransonia.gran@nottingham.ac.uk
For booking queries contact Barbara Mastonbarbara.maston@nottingham.ac.uk
Overview: This one day course will help you improve your statistical skills and apply those skills when critically appraising the literature. The course will also help you overcome any fears of the statistical methods and results sections of published papers. We will revisit basic statistical principles and learn what the appropriate analyses are for different types of data. By having access to both good and bad examples of papers, you will gain insight into how to identify common statistical errors made in trials and systematic reviews and how to interpret the results correctly.
Audience: The course is tailored to the needs of professionals working in dermatology. It is suitable for anyone who needs to read or write scientific papers and reports, and present information to colleagues, management, external organisations or the general public.
Cost: £140 early bird (by 8th May) thereafter £170
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To understand how to interpret p-values, confidence intervals, descriptive statistics
20 minutes talk, followed by 30 minutes group work, followed by 15 minutes feedback
Aim: To distinguish between continuous/categorical and paired/unpaired data
Lunch
Aim: To identify common errors in papers and learn how to interpret the results
15 minutes talk, followed by 50 minutes group work, followed by 40 minutes feedback
Tea/coffee break
Aim: To know when data can be pooled and learn how to interpret forest and funnel plots
Faculty:
The University of Nottingham Applied Health Research Building University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD
telephone: +44 (0) 115 84 68631 email: cebd@nottingham.ac.uk