Teaching Postgraduate Statistics

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Teaching Postgraduate Statistics

• Elizabeth Ackerley

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Resources for postgraduates

• Short courses
• Web-based material
• Video/slides/demos
• Course notes
• Consultancy Service
• Teaching in departments

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Short courses

• Software courses
• SPSS, Atlas.ti, R, STATA
• General statistics courses
• e.g. Statistical Methods, Statistical Inference
• e.g. Questionnaire Design, Sampling Design,
  Secondary Data Analysis
• e.g. Generalised Linear Models, Bayesian Methods,
  Structural Equation Modelling, Event History
  Analysis

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Web-based material

• Short courses filmed
• Software demos captured
• Video, demos and slides combined
• Placed on web
• http//www.cas.lancs.ac.uk/e-learning/index.php

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Web-based material
Registration required example sessions available
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Web-based material

• Course notes available for downloading
• Audio, slides and demos are based on the notes

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Consultancy

• One-to-one meetings between client and
  statistician
• Open to LU staff and PGs
• From basic enquiries to complex, multiple-meeting
  work

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Teaching in departments

• Masters level research students often attend
• e.g. Psychology, Linguistics, Management School
• Voluntary / compulsory
• Assessed / non-assessed

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Partnership

• More statistics expected for Theses /
  Dissertations
• Appropriate data often complex
• Main subject supervisor often unable to give
  statistical support
• Statistician sympathetic towards students
  discipline