The Key Learning in Statistics Tutorials below are primarily intended as a primer to assist with prior learning in statistics. This is to provide a foundation from which to start when approaching statistics for clinical practice or research. Only the first of these tutorials is designed specifically for undergraduate medical students of the University of Edinburgh.
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- Using and making friends with IBM SPSS at the University of Edinburgh
Note that this tutorial provides advice on installing a University-licensed copy of SPSS on your own computer, correcting issues if you are using a Mac laptop, and introductory resources to help you make friends with SPSS.
2. Types of data – a prelude to hypothesis testing
3. Descriptive Statistics: How and when to use them, and a few companion graphs
4. Fundamentals of questionnaire design – also applies to the design of forms for collecting data from patient notes
5. Fundamentals of hypothesis testing
6. Sample size calculations
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Key Learning in Statistics Tutorials – Preliminary Training by Margaret MacDougall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
