Understanding your information: An introduction to summary statistics
Who is this course for?
This training course is aimed at local authority colleagues. Please note: there is a maximum of two delegates per council.
The course is intentionally ‘basic’ in its approach and content, and is aimed at beginners. No previous knowledge of data or statistics is required.
What will I learn?
Summary statistics can help you to quickly and easily make sense of your data by simplifying the key trends. For example, taking an average can help you to understand what your data looks like.
This training course gives practical advice and guidance to help you understand how to summarise your data into easy-to-digest statistics.
This course covers:
- how to interpret summary statistics
- the most common statistical measures
- how they can be calculated and when they should be used.
Skills tags:
- data
- statistics