SHORT COURSES IN QUANTITATIVE METHODS AT LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

for Scientists, Social Scientists and Health Researchers    

 

Michaelmas term

             

Introduction to Statistics (SPSS I)- 20^th & 21^st November 2014

This course will introduce participants to the manipulation and management of data in the SPSS Windows environment. Participants will develop the confidence to manipulate data files in order to summarise data numerically and graphically and to perform simple statistical procedures including formal tests of hypotheses of interest. This course is aimed at researchers and research students, with little experience of Windows computing.    

 

Secondary Data Analysis 28 November 2014

This course introduces the skills and techniques involved in sourcing and analysing secondary data. The course consists of two parts. The first part is concerned with using the internet to discover secondary data sources and other material both in the UK and in other countries. The major British social surveys will be covered. Online access to the UK census data will also be demonstrated. The second part of the course explores in detail two publicly available datasets, the Home Office Offenders Index birth cohort series and the ESRC British Household Panel survey. The course will show methods of merging and aggregating datasets to produce information sources suitable for secondary analysis.

     

Questionnaire Design, Validity and reliability – 1^st December 2014 

This course will provide students with the tools required to design questionnaires in an efficient and effective manner. Examples of good and bad practice;  interview schedule vs. self-completion forms and structured vs. semi-structured instruments will be given, along with an overview and examples of the important concepts of testing validity and reliability. Consideration of on-line surveys will also be given.

      

 

To book a place and for more details, please go to our short course website at: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/maths/postgraduate/short-courses-and-cpd/

 

 

*** See website for more courses running after Christmas ***

Regards

Angela

 

Angela Mercer

Short Course/Quantitative Methods for Science, Social Science and Medicine Postgraduate Administrator

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

C/o Postgraduate Statistics Centre

Room 78

Lancaster University

Lancaster

 

***Please note I work: Mon-Thurs: 8.30 am – 3 pm; Fri: 8.30 am – 12 noon***

 

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