The Royal Statistical Society Professional Development Centre Training Courses.

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Learn from experienced, knowledgeable and engaging trainers - September and October Courses are listed below.

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The Royal Statistical Society Professional Development Centre.

These are challenging times and your career and business success depends on expanding your ideas, developing your experience and connecting with people that can impact your career in a positive way.

RSS Training Courses 2009 - Continuing Professional Development for Statisticians and Users of Statistics..

Forthcoming courses include:
Consultancy Skills - 2-3 September - London (Roland Caulcutt & Dr. Julie Bullen)
For any statisticians who wish to improve their effectiveness as internal or external consultants. Interpersonal skills can greatly influence the effectiveness of statistical consultancy. This course goes beyond our introductory course by offering role-play sessions and supporting feedback from experienced coaches.

Effective Mentoring and Coaching - Tools, Tips and Techniques for helping people raise their performance and achieve their potential 3rd September - London (Peter English)

Mentoring and coaching are powerful, practical and cost effective ways to share professional experience and ensure staff perform to their full potential. This one-day course explores all aspects of mentoring as well as issues of managing staff, and getting the best out of each individual.

Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss real-life situations and practice their mentoring/coaching skills on one another.

Presenting Data - 17th September - London (Ed Swires-Hennessy)
For anyone involved in communicating statistics and the message contained in them. The basic principles of presenting statistical information - tables, charts, maps and text are explained, illustrated and reinforced through practical excercises. The course covers interpretation of information by non-statisticians, reporting data and presenting messages to the general public.

Ethics and Statistics - 30th September - London (Prof. Jane Hutton)
Ethics is the investigation of reasoning concerning ideas such as goodness, duty, responsibility, honour, choice and freedom - and the foundations and logical implications of these concepts. The ethical theories of the RSS, ASA and ISI will be considered and compared to other professions.


Introduction to Quantitative Methods - 7th October - London (Dave McGeeney and Matt Linsley)
This workshop aims to equip you with some of the tools and techniques to collect, summarise, present and draw conclusions from data. Topics include; Measures of Location, Measures of Dispersion, Simple Random Sampling, Systematic Sampling, Cluster Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, Confidence Intervals, Run Charts, Boxplots, Histograms, Bar Charts, Pareto Charts, Pie Charts, Scatterplots, Price Relatives, Aggregates, Percentages.


The Statistical Evaluation of Surrogate Endpoints in Clinical Trials - 13th October - London (Geert Molenberghs)
The course will present an overview of the developments in surrogate marker evaluation, with illustrations predominantly from the fields of ophthalmology, oncology, and mental health. It combines applied and methodological aspects, but is not deeply theoretical.

Basic Statistics for Laboratories - 14-15th October - London - (Carolyn Craggs)
This two day course is designed for people who need to apply statistical analysis to laboratory data. It aims to give delegates the knowledge and confidence to correctly apply statistical tools and interpret results in their work situation.

Introduction to R and S Plus - 16th October - London - (Andrew Jack)
A basic introduction to R and S-Plus for people with no or little previous experience. The course will introduce the R and S-Plus working environments, demonstrate how to load data from a variety of sources (e.g. Excel) and then teach the basics of data manipulation, visualisation and analysis in R and S-Plus. The course will focus on the programming language only, and not the graphical user interface.

Introduction to Stata - 19th October - London - (Tim Collier)
A basic introduction to Stata for people with no previous experience who wish to use it for research purposes. Introduce the Stata work environment, demonstrate how to load data from a variety of sources (e.g. Excel) and then teach the fundamentals of data checking, processing and management. Some commands for producing simple summaries will be introduced. We will also introduce Stata`s extensive on-line help facility so enabling participants to go on learning after the course.

Inspirational Leadership - 28-29th October - London - (Duncan Miles & Denis Greer)
The course aims to enhance participant's understanding of effective leadership behaviours; increase their understanding of team roles and techniques for sustaining high performance teams and to enhance their overall impact and effectiveness through increased self-awareness and the use of productive communication approaches.

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Why not have one of our courses run at your own workplace?

More economical as you only pay a fixed fee.

More flexible as the content can be tailored to the specific needs of your company and timings can be arranged to suit your business needs.

The RSS can also design customized courses depending on the current training requirements of your business.



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The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) launched its Professional Development Centre (PDC) in January 2007 with the aim of providing training courses to enhance the provision of continuing professional development for statisticians and users of statistics.



At the PDC we consult with statisticians throughout the RSS and training managers in organisations where many staff use statistics on a daily basis as an integral part of their work, to put together a programme which responds to identified needs.



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