RSU invites physicians, medical residents and anyone working with research data an interactive online workshop themed How to Understand Descriptive Statistics led by visiting professors in family medicine Michael Harris (Great Britain) and Hans Thulesius (Sweden).

Descriptive statistics is about summarising, organising and presenting data in a meaningful and concise way.

In this 60-minute workshop, you will learn:

• how we can measure of the mid-point of data: mean, median, mode, and when to use them;
• how we can describe the spread of data, for example: range, standard deviation and inter-quartile range;
• how we should use graphs to make our data easier to understand;
• how we can compare two sets of data; this includes scatter plots and correlation.

As with all our teaching, this will be an interactive workshop, not a lecture. This time there will be no pre-course reading for you to do, but you will need to do some work in small groups.