In many disciplines, researchers wishing to publish are asked to provide a rigorous statistical analysis. Reviewers are often specific about what statistical measures they want included. "Why wasn't Fisher's Exact Test used?" "Was an appropriate sample size determined a priori?"

This course is designed as an introduction to statistical design and analysis for researchers. There is emphasis on understanding the concepts of statistical procedures. It is a hands-on course where you will carry out analyses and interpret the results. This course is designed to help you, the researcher. It is helpful if you have done an undergraduate statistics subject, although this course can serve as a first introduction or a refresher.

Statistical analyses require specialised software to perform calculations. In this course, we use the free statistical program R, with its user-friendly interface, RStudio, although researchers may have another statistical package available to them.