We are reannouncing three short courses, which are scheduled to take place
in March 2009 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]
Microsoft® Excel 2007 for Statistics? What you can and cannot do
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Dates: 10 - 11 March 2009. Duration: 2 days. Price: 565 GBP.
This course gives practical experience in the use of Excel for data summary
and presentation, and for other basic statistical work. It concentrates
primarily on the areas where Excel really can excel. These include basic data
entry and management, tabulation using Excel's pivot tables, and graphics. We
also review Excel's facilities for statistical analysis, giving advice on their use
and limitations, and discuss how add-ins or other statistical software can be
used to enhance Excel's capabilities.
Taking Microsoft® Excel 2007 Further: Macros for Data Management and
Statistics
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Date: 12 March 2009. Duration: 1 day. Price: 305 GBP.
The ease with which Excel can be extended is a welcome and useful surprise
for those who wish or need to use Excel for statistical work.
This one-day course introduces participants to ways of extending Excel using
macros and other features of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Examples
include simple programs to reorganise data and to perform statistical
calculations. Practical sessions enable participants to develop and run simple
macros.
The Incomplete and Utter Guide to Statistics
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Date: 16 - 17 March 2009. Duration: 2 days. Price: 565 GBP.
Knowing when to use which test is a common problem. Even deciding whether
to use statistics at all can be a problem. Are my data suitable to be
analysed? What issues influence whether or not they can be analysed?
Where do you start and how can you select the most appropriate methods for
your analysis?
This course seeks to establish a framework that will help you to understand
data analyses and address the complications that may lie within. It will not
detail the specifics of how each technique applies in a given situation but will
provide you with a general approach to tackle a variety of problems. It will
also allow you to be more discerning when reading statistical reports and
summaries.
The aim is that you will go away from the course understanding how the world
of statistics fits together and how it relates to your work.
Julia Harris
Short Course Administrator
Statistical Service Centre
University of Reading
Reading, UK
Tel: + 44 (0)118 378 8689
Fax: + 44 (0)118 378 8458
email: [log in to unmask]
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