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 
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 - 3rd September - London (Peter English)

Mentoring and coaching can be a powerful and cost effective way of 
developing people within the workplace. Evidence shows that the 
effectiveness of mentoring and coaching is significantly improved if the 
mentor or coach has been trained in the role.

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 th -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.

Scientific Writing - 20th October - London - (Shirley Coleman)
Scientific writing is important for many reasons including sharing research, 
getting published and bidding for funding.  For many people being able to 
write is important for securing and retaining employment.  People are often 
unnecessarily worried about writing and this course aims to help them get 
started.  The topics include types of writing (reports, proposals, papers, 
articles and press releases, types of journals, writing exercises and 
guidelines.  The course will be interactive and practical rather than 
theoretical.  Each topic will be introduced and followed by exercise or 
discussion.  The only statistical part is the presentation of statistics and 
graphics.

Introduction to Bayesian Analysis using WinBUGS - 21 st-22 nd October - 
London - (Dave Lunn)
Will provide a basic introduction to Bayesian ideas such as the 
representation of prior knowledge and parameter uncertainty using 
probability distributions and how such knowledge/uncertainty can be fully 
propagated through to one's inferences.  Both data-free and 
learning-from-data will be covered.  For statisticians working in any 
application area, with some basic familiarity of classical methods such as 
generalized linear models.

Inspirational Leadership - 28 th -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.

Please visit our website for more information about courses being held 
throughout 2009 and to download our 2009 course brochure 
www.rss.org.uk/courses


In-house Courses and Bespoke Training: Economical and Flexible
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.

Contact us for a no-obligation review of your training needs. On 01625 
504067 or email [log in to unmask]
For further information and course fees click onto www.rss.org.uk/courses 
followed by 'All RSS PDC Courses' on the right hand-side of the screen. 
Places are strictly limited so register early to confirm your place.
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.

New courses are being commissioned all the time.  For all latest updates and 
further details about what's covered in each course and course fees please 
check our website:  www.rss.org.uk/courses
www.rss.org.uk/courses