Transferable Skills Course: Statistical Literacy
- Start: Nov 27, 2024 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
- End: Dec 13, 2024 04:30 PM
- Speaker: Rick Scavetta
- Location: online
- Contact: imprs-bac@molgen.mpg.de
Enables Life Scientists to Understand the Purpose and Uses of Classical Statistics as an Integral Part of the Scientific Method. This is the first workshop of a three-workshop-cycle on statistics (Statistical Literacy - Data Analysis with R - Data Visualization with R).
To book this course, please email imprs-bac@molgen.mpg.de.
Schedule
This course will take place online.
- Start eLearning: 20th November 2024
- 1st Group Session: 27th November 2024, 09.30 – 11.30
- 2nd Group Session: 4th December 2024, 09.30 – 11.30
- 3rd Group Session: 11th December 2024, 09.30 – 11.30
- Study Session: 13th December 2024, 14.30 – 16.30
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 up to 2 hours of your time per day.
Content
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.
Courses are now structured by modules and run for three to four weeks, giving participants a clearer structure and more time to engage with the material and the instructor. Additionally, courses include a new Study Session module where students can explore real-world case studies.