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Royal Statistical Society

Basic Statistics

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at those who have either never undertaken a formal statistics course, or who have studied some statistics in the past but wish to undertake a refresher. It is ideal for statistical novices who have never had any formal training but are starting to encounter statistics in their work and wish to gain some insight.

What will I learn?

By the end of this course, participants will understand basic approaches to statistical inference, including hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation.

They will be equipped with the skills necessary to undertake simple analysis and to understand some of the basic terms often used to report statistical results. The course will include some calculations by hand to aid understanding.

Skills tags:

  • data
  • data analysis
  • statistics