Intermediate: Exploring Your Data (Descriptive Statistics, Graphs and Custom Tables)

Course description

This more advanced course builds on the skills taught in the introductory courses, to include techniques for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) with a focus on appropriate summarising of the data and presenting it in tables and graphs. Although this course is aimed to be practically orientated, theoretical considerations related to the covered topics are addressed.

The course is aimed to be practically oriented with extensive use of the IBM SPSS and Stata statistical packages.

The details of the connection to the Web Conference will be emailed to enrolled participants a day before the course and again an hour before the event. Please contact stats.consultant@flinders.edu.au if you have any questions relating to this course.

Type of course

Web conference

Presenters

Who should attend

Staff and Research Higher Degree Students

What you will learn

• Summarising categorical and continuous data
• Using graphs to describe and explore the data
• Assessing normality and outliers

Prerequisites / assumed knowledge

Preferably participants should attend Introduction to SPSS, Introduction to Stata, and Introduction to Statistical Analysis (or have an understanding of concepts/skills covered in those three introductory courses) before enrolling in this workshop.