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Physician Associates research skills guide: Statistics

Useful resources for developing your research skills.

Graphs on a page

Here you can find some useful information and training relating to the statistical treatment of data. The material below will introduce you to some of the statistical analysis methods that might be needed to complete a research project:

1) Data representation

2) Replication and pseudoreplication

3) Hypothesis testing

4) Elements of evidence based medicine

Elements of statistics

Below are some slides presented to the MPharm students which summarise Elements of statistics which you may find useful.

Extra material on hypothesis testing

Useful web resources on statistics

Using Excel

Elements of evidence based medicine

Below are some slides presented to the MPharm students which cover Evidence-based medicine which you may find useful.

Workshop on statistics: A simulation of some hypotheses testing scenarios

These are the files you will need to run the workshop (the link of which is in the tab on the right).

To run the workshop, you will need to have Excel and SPSS installed on your PC.

You can download SPSS from APPS ANYWHERE (for free).

Some useful books

There are a large number of books on 'R' in the Library. They are mostly located on the 2nd Floor at 519.502855369-R. Here are a selection of titles.

Web resources on 'R'