The innovation opportunity for preventative healthcare is huge, yet products, services and concepts that could improve health, fitness and quality of life struggle to find routes to adoption. Some of this challenge centres on the business model, but there is more besides. ‘Health and Care’ spans a vast spectrum from hospitals to everyday fitness and …
With widening health inequalities and stalling life expectancy, the new government faces huge challenges in ensuring a ‘fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer’. Improving health and reducing health inequalities requires action far beyond health care to strengthen the building blocks of health – good homes, stable jobs and access to healthy affordable food. …
Course overview This three-day course will give delegates an excellent grounding in the basics of biomedical statistics, as well as provide a detailed introduction to other courses offered by the health data science team. It looks at the most commonly used study designs in biomedical health research, giving the background to the theory but also …
This course is aimed at researchers who require a basic understanding of R software as part of their research studies. It is suitable for those who have no previous experience of R, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is available …
This module is aimed at researchers in the laboratory and medical fields. It is suitable for those who have no previous experience of data analysis, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. Understanding the assumptions and characteristics of statistical methods is important in order to obtain the correct analysis and biological interpretation of …
This course examines the application of models to predict a binary response variable from categorical and continuous predictor variables. Participants will also learn to apply these methods using SPSS software, as well as find out how to interpret their results.
This course is suitable for those who have no previous experience of data analysis, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. Time-to-event data are collected when individuals are followed over time. This course aims to provide grounding in statistical concepts and methods for the analysis of time-to-event data. Course participants will also gain …
Have you ever wondered what kind of research the Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Organ Donation and Transplantation (BTRU in ODT) does? How donated organs become part of a research project? What a clinical trial is? Or what the role of a Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation (SNOD) is? Join the BTRU ODT on …
This course is aimed at researchers who require a basic understanding of prediction modelling as part of their research studies. It is suitable for those who have no previous experience of prediction modelling, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. Clinical prediction models combine multiple pieces of patient information in order to predict …
This one-day module is aimed at those working in a medical field. It is suitable for those who have no previous experience of data analysis, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. This one-day course provides an overview of the important design and statistical analysis issues involved in setting up and evaluating studies …
This one-day workshop is suitable for those who have no previous experience of meta-analysis, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. If participants do not already have a basic understanding of statistical techniques, we recommend they also register for the three day course on statistical issues in the design and analysis of research …
This course is aimed at participants who require a basic understanding of longitudinal data analysis as part of their research studies. It is suitable for those who have no previous experience of data analysis, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. Longitudinal data is obtained when a time-sequence of measurements is made on …