Transferable Skills Course: Statistical Literacy

  • Beginn: 21.11.2018
  • Ende: 23.11.2018
  • Vortragende(r): Rick Scavetta
  • Ort: MPI-MG
  • Raum: seminar room 2
  • Gastgeber: Kirsten Kelleher
  • Kontakt: kelleher@molgen.mpg.de
Transferable Skills Course: Statistical Literacy
Enables Life Scientists to Understand the Purpose and Uses of Classical Statistics as an Integral Part of the Scientific Method

The course is now full. Please email kelleher@molgen.mpg.de to get on the waiting list.


Topics covered:

  • Good experimental design and sources of bias.
  • Systematic versus random error.
  • The distinction between samples and populations.
  • The most appropriate ways to describe samples.
  • Estimation and the principle of hypothesis testing.
  • The Standard Error of the Mean and confidence intervals.
  • Understanding and reporting uncertainty.
  • Power, Type I and type II errors.
  • Standard parametric tests and their interpretations, including p-values, test statistics and associated distributions.


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