University of Reading

Statistical Service Centre
The University of Reading
Harry Pitt Building
Whiteknights Road
PO Box 240
Reading RG6 6FN
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8025 - for general and consultancy enquiries
Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8689 - for short course enquiries
Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3169
E-mail: statistics-courses@lists.rdg.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc

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Regression Analysis: A Hands-on Approach
A Review of Basic Statistics
Practical Bayesian Data Analysis

Course Title Regression Analysis: A Hands-on Approach
Institution Reading: University of Reading
Country United Kingdom
Type Certificate/ Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Health Research and Methods: Statistics
Health Research and Methods: Study Design and Data Analysis
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Objectives/
Content		 Participants will acquire an appreciation of how simple regression concepts can be extended easily to investigate more complex situations. You will also learn how to interpret computer output and to report results in non-statistical language.
Course content:
Describing a regression model
Fitting regression models using suitable software
Assessing the model visually with plots
A guide to the analysis of variance
Extending the model - comparison of regressions
Next Beginning

2 February; 21 March; 18 July; 3 October 2007
Appl. Deadline Early application (using this form) is strongly recommended.
Duration 1 day
Participants'
Profile		 Scientists and data analysts who need to be conversant with the concepts of regression and the process of choosing a model. Attendance on A Review of Basic Statistics, or equivalent knowledge, will be assumed.
Course fee £270
An Academic discount is available for this course.
Consecutive courses, i.e. A Review of Basic Statistics plus this course: £720 in total.
For further
information		 Tel: +44 (0)118 378 86 89
Email: statistics-courses@lists.reading.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ssc/courses/regress.html
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Course Title A Review of Basic Statistics
Institution Reading: University of Reading
Country United Kingdom
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Health Research and Methods: Statistics
Health Research and Methods: Study Design and Data Analysis
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location University of Reading
Objectives/
Content		 This course builds up the basic ideas of statistics systematically and quickly. It provides an introduction to methods of summarising and presenting data, estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Mathematical details are kept to a minimum.
Much of the course is practical work on PCs using accessible and user-friendly statistical packages such as GenStat, R, Minitab, SAS, SPSS and Stata. Instat, a package developed by the SSC, can also be used – it is provided free to course participants. Microsoft® Excel may, too, be used – this requires use of SSC-Stat, our Excel add-in that is also provided to participants.
Next Beginning 31 January-1 February; 19-20 March; 16-17 July; 1-2 October; 3-4 December 2007
Appl. Deadline Early application (using this form) is strongly recommended.
Duration 2 days
Participants'
Profile		 Scientists and technologists who have had some previous training in statistics but who now wish to understand basic statistical ideas more thoroughly.
Course fee £495 (subject to review)
For further
information		 Tel: +44 (0)118 378 86 89
Email: statistics-courses@lists.reading.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ssc/courses/review07.html
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Course Title Practical Bayesian Data Analysis
Institution Reading: University of Reading
Country United Kingdom
Type Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months)
Topics Health Research and Methods: Statistics
Health Research and Methods: Study Design and Data Analysis
Language English
Degree, Credits
Location University of Reading
Objectives/
Content

You will extend your data analysis skills to cover a very wide class of modelling, including the use of prior information. You will learn how to use specialised software for Bayesian data analysis.
Course content:
Likelihood, prior and posterior distributions and the use of Bayes' theorem
Bayesian analysis of single parameter models and simple multi-parameter models
Conjugate, non-informative and informative priors
Simulation of posterior distributions; posterior summaries
Hierarchical Bayesian models
Sampling from posteriors: Gibbs and Metropolis-Hastings sampling
MCMC diagnostics and convergence issues
Case studies with WinBUGS: more complex models, including mixed effects models and non-linear models.

Next Beginning 27-29 March; 24-26 July 2007
Appl. Deadline Early application (using this form) is strongly recommended.
Duration 3 days
Participants'
Profile		 Statisticians and data analysts who wish to use a Bayesian approach in analysing their data. Even those who are not comfortable with using prior information in their analysis will find the flexible modelling made possible by MCMC methods a powerful tool. No prior knowledge of WinBUGS or R will be assumed.
Course fee £855
An Academic discount is available for this course.
For further
information		 Tel: +44 (0)118 378 86 89
Email: statistics-courses@lists.reading.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ssc/courses/bayes.html
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