We are announcing three short courses, which are scheduled to take place in
July 2007 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: 16-17 July 2007. 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.
Regression Analysis: A Hands-on Approach
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Date: 18 July 2007. Duration: 1 day. Price: 270 GBP.
Regression is a powerful technique for studying relationships between
quantitative variables. Summarising relationships by the most appropriate
equation (modelling) is very quick when using a statistical package. It is
also easy to progress from basic models to more complex situations, such as
comparison of regressions.
This course gives a practical introduction to regression techniques.
Survival Analysis for Scientists
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Date: 19-20 July. Duration: 2 Days. Price: 495 GBP.
Survival or 'time-to-event' data arise in many scientific areas. Examples
include time to death after an operation, the shelf-life of a food product,
time until germination of a seed, time taken to pay a bill, and time until
an accident.
One particular aspect of time-to-event data is censoring, where the time to
event is not known exactly; it is only known to be greater than a certain
value. The methods of analysis for time-to-event data fully encompass the
issue of censoring.
The course is a basic practical introduction to some of the commonly-used
tools for analysing time-to-event data. SAS, SPSS and Stata will be
available for practical work.
Julia Harris
Short Course Administrator
Statistical Service Centre
Tel: 0118 378 8689
Fax: + 44 (0)118 975 3169
Email: [log in to unmask]
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