Overview
Increasingly, public sector professionals are having to think in a more statistical way to analyse data, interpret statistical reports, and make forecasts, often without the necessary training.
By attending this virtual Understanding Statistical Analysis course, delivered by statistician Alex Bottle, gain the skills to mitigate risk when making decisions and develop simple but effective forecasting strategies.
Attend this course to learn how to describe variation and randomness; understand how to develop sampling strategies and apply association and trends techniques.
This course gives professionals with no or only a limited understanding of statistics the confidence to make more effective decisions based on statistical information.
Unlocking the Power of Virtual
Our virtual courses have been designed with you in mind. From group exercises in breakout rooms to live chat, whiteboards and interactive polls, we use a range of tools and techniques to ensure that you can connect with your trainer; network and share best practice with your peers and leave the day with the skills you need.
Our courses provide you with an interactive and engaging learning environment that can be accessed from any location, helping you to continue to connect, learn and grow. Click here to discover more!
Please note we will use Zoom to deliver this course.
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
- Understand how to analyse statistics to improve the performance of your organisation
- Learn how to apply statistics to 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
