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Royal Statistical Society

Introduction to Data

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at those who have never undertaken a formal statistics course. 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?

The course will introduce concepts such as hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation. It will provide the tools to undertake simple analysis of a dataset and reading and understanding reported statistics.

Topics Covered:
- Introduction to data
- Summarising numerical data
- Sampling
- Normal distribution
- Confidance intervals
- Summarising categorical data
- Hypothesis testing

Skills tags:

  • data
  • statistics