Overview
Increasingly public sector organisations are turning to statistics to help drive performance, improve decision making and deliver better services. Within this growing dependency on statistics, there is an increasing need for more professionals to be able to think in a more statistical way.
By attending this Understanding Statistical Analysis course, with statistician Alex Bottle delegates will be able to mitigate risk when making decisions; confidently analyse data reports and develop effective forecasting strategies.
This course will give professionals, with a limited understanding of statistics the confidence to make more effective decisions, based on statistical reports produced by analysts and researchers.
Alex is an experienced statistician, speaker and tutor who uses a range of data sources and presentational methods to help hospitals and clinicians improve their performance.
After his first job as a statistician with a large pharmaceutical company, Alex moved to Imperial College London and gained a PhD in Epidemiology. He was seconded to the Shipman Public Inquiry to investigate how statistics could be used to detect GPs like Shipman with high death rates. Since 2002, his research has focused on measuring the quality and safety of healthcare using large databases and on helping clinicians ...
Learning Outcomes
- Understanding how you can analyse statistics to improve the performance of your organisation
- Learn how to apply statistics in your organisation
- Understand basic statistical terms
- Learn how to effectively forecast to help make more effective business decisions
- Examine trends that may impact your organisation
