Transferable Skills Course: Statistical Literacy

To book this course, please email kelleher@molgen.mpg.de .

This course will now take place online. There are three group sessions:

18th of November, 9.30 - 11.30

20th of November, 9.30 - 11.30

23rd of November, 9.30 - 11.30

One week before the first group session you will receive access to the course material, which you will need to work through before the group session. This should take about 1-2 hours of your time per day.

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.