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Title: 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
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