We are very excited to announce the newest workshop to complement our data-focused workshops: Statistical Literacy.
 

Teaching Literacy, not Memorization

The target group for this workshop is young doctoral students in the life sciences. Many of these students encounter applied statistics for the first time during their doctoral studies and are not equipped with a well-rounded understanding of the theoretical underpinnings. This workshop addresses this deficit with the goal of making students statistically literate.

In this context, we present classical statistics as an integral part of the research process, not simply as a quick calculation that is done before you need to publish. We place emphasis on understanding the why of classical statistics, instead of presenting a flow chart of statistical tests that students mindlessly follow without really understanding what they are doing.
 

 

Interactive Web Apps & Videos

A suite of custom-built web apps are used to complement the workshop. The mystique is stripped off difficult-to-grasp concepts such as theoretical distributions. The practical implications of slight changes in input parameters are explored in the apps for hypothesis testing, such as the one and two-sample t-tests.

 
Videos, such as this one demonstrating how sample size affects the standard deviation versus 95% confidence intervals are used as a teaching aid in-class.
 

All web apps and videos are available for students after the workshop.
 

Collecting, Describing, Inferring

The workshop is available as two-three intense days, covering topics in sample collection & description as well as population inference (estimation and hypothesis testing). It serves well as a stand-alone workshop but can also be viewed as a complement to Data Analysis (reproducible and transparent statistics) and Data Visualisation (analysing and communicating data visually).
 

Easy-to-understand and Visual Explanations

The feedback on our first workshops has been very encouraging, such as:

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The next available bookings for the Statistical Literacy workshop are in Spring 2015.