We are announcing two short courses, which are scheduled to take place in
December 2006 at The University of Reading, UK. Summary information is
given below. For more detailed information and registration forms please
see http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc/ providing your address and/or fax number,
or email [log in to unmask]
A Review of Basic Statistics
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Dates: 4 - 5 December 2006. Duration: 2 days. Price: 495 GBP.
This course builds up the basic ideas of statistics systematically and
quickly. It provides an introduction to methods of summarising and
presenting data, estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.
Mathematical details will be kept to a minimum. A wide choice of
statistical software is available for practical work.
What Sample Size Do I Need?
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Date: 6 December 2006. Duration: 1 day. Price: 270 GBP.
This is a common problem and should be given due consideration in any
research proposal, as an inadequate sample size invariably leads to wasted
resources. This course aims to give a practical introduction to sample size
determination in the context of some commonly used significance tests.
Practical work will be based around the statistical computing package
MINITAB, exploiting its module on sample size determination, and the
more specialised packages, nQuery Advisor and PASS. Formulae and
algebraic notation will be kept to a minimum.
Julia Harris
Short Course Administrator
Statistical Service Centre
Tel: 0118 378 8689
Fax: 0118 975 3169
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