Next steps in statistics

These resources are designed to help understand some key concepts in statistics.

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  Video Written Resource Exercises

Variance and standard deviation

     
Introduction to formulae  
Sample variance    
Why we divide by (n-1)    

Confidence intervals

     
Calculating confidence intervals for the mean

 

Relative risk and odds ratios

     
Relative risk  
Odds ratios

 
Comparing relative risk and odds ratios

Medical statistics definitions, including definitions of relative risks and odds ratios

 

Introduction to correlation

     
Introduction to correlation

Different measures of correlation   Measures of correlation  

Simple linear regression

     
Introduction  
Making predictions Making predictions  

Hypothesis testing principles

     
Principles of hypothesis testing

Booklet  

Type I and II errors: power, sample Size, effect size, etc

     
Power analysis

Power-based calculations 
Sample size calculations  

Power Based Sample Size Calculations

An Introductin to Sample Size Calculations

 
Type I and Type II errors  
Cohen d (effect size)    

Introductory Hypothesis tests 

     
Paired vs unpaired data    
One-Sample T-test      
T-tests (paired)

 

Paired t-tests booklet (PDF, XKB)

 
T-tests (unpaired)

Booklet

 
Chi-squared test

 
Fisher's exact test Fisher’s Exact test (Word, XKB)  

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Two people sitting at a table looking at some work together

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