Statistics

Overview

Key facts

Strengthen your scientific and life sciences career with this course in Statistics. If you want to develop scientifically-based research studies, this is your starting point. Learn how to interpret data sets, and how to prove your point based on scientifically proven methods.

Aims of the Statistics course at Warnborough College

• Become familiar with different statistical terms and the elementary representation of statistical data.

• Become familia with distributions, and the application of distributions in processing data.

• Apply measures of central tendency in solving research questions

• Demonstrate and explain the normal curve, percentiles and standard scores.

• Explain methods of correlation that describes the relationship between two variables.

• Make predictions with regression equations.

• Determine how much error to expect when making the predictions.

• Explain the basic concepts of underlying the use of statistics to make inferences.

• Analyze the difference between the means of two groups with the t Test.

• Describe the use of ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) in analysing the difference between two or more groups.

• Apply the concept of Non Parametric Statistics.