Stats Central Seminar Series

Stats Central will provide a series of nine free seminars to all UNSW and Randwick Health Precinct staff and students.

Wednesday 15 May, 4-5pm: Introduction

We will cover the basic terminology important in statistics, discuss some experimental design issues and go over some ways of summarising data.

Wednesday 22 May, 4-5pm: Hypothesis testing, t-tests

This lecture will discuss the basic process of hypothesis testing in research. We will also begin demonstrating data analysis with t-tests.

Wednesday 29 May, 4-5pm: Categorical data

Not all data we have questions about are continuous, so in this lecture we will describe some analyses we can do when our data are categorical.

Wednesday 5 June, 4-5 pm: Analysis of Variance

We will discuss the logic of ANOVA, and demonstrate factorial ANOVA and repeated measures. This seminar will be split across two sessions (5th and 12th June).

Wednesday 12 June, 4-5pm: Analysis of Variance (cont.)

We will discuss the logic of ANOVA, and demonstrate factorial ANOVA and repeated measures.

Wednesday 19 June, 4-5pm: Correlation and Regression

This lecture discusses how to assess the association between continuous variables, using regression to model that relationship, and demonstrates one way to build a multiple regression model.

Wednesday 26 June, 4-5pm: Logistic & Poisson regression

Here, we extend the linear regression concepts to outcome variables that are not continuous and normally-distributed.

Wednesday 3 July, 4-5pm: Cox regression

In this lecture we will discuss the basics of time to event analyses, Kaplan-Meier curves and the Cox proportional hazards model.

Wednesday 10 July, 4-5pm: Sample Size and Power

In this lecture we will give a few tips about basic sample size calculation for some common, simple research designs.