SWiSS-2016

Surrey WinteR Statistics School – 2016

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL STATISTICS & ANALYSIS OF HEALTH DATA USING “R”

This course is for researchers, clinicians and online order for viagra just try! health services analysts that want an intensive introduction to medical statistics and learn how to use R. R is a very powerful free statistical package you can continue to use after attending this course.

The topics covered using R will include:

• Understanding how R works (its syntax)
• Input of data sets
• Descriptive statistics and visualising data
• Statistical tests (parametric and non-parametric)
• Correlation and linear regression
• Logistic Regression
• Study design
• Principles of sample size calculation

Learning objectives:Through attendance at the course you will:

• Access and download recommended versions of R and other add-on programs you can continue to use after the course without licence fees
• Gain knowledge and understanding of some of http://www.kingwoodonline.com/buy-cheap-cialis-online the more common statistical methods involved in the analysis and interpretation of health data for research, more effective audit and confidence analysis to support health service management
• Gain expertise in the use of R statistical package analyse and present study data

The course is hosted by the Clinical Informatics and Health Outcomes Research group.

Venue: 

Section of Clinical Medicine & AgeingDepartment of Clinical & Experimental MedicineUniversity of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7PX, UK

Dates:

14 – 15 January 2016

Price:

CHAIN/BCS members – £136.50, NHS/Academic – £150, Commercial – £250

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