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You will find below references to long courses,
short courses
and one-off courses
These usually lead to a degree above the bachelor level. We have only recorded here those which either have specific connections with needs in employment or which are available by distance learning. These are, of course, many MSc courses in different universities.
De Montford University
Sheffield Hallam
University
De Montford University has a course on Industrial Data Modelling which can be done in-house or by distance learning.
Sheffield
Hallam University has an MSc or Diploma in Applied
Statistics.
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When institutions and companies offer short courses in
particular subjects it is presumably because there is a demand.
The subject of these short courses indicate where there may be
gaps in undergraduate training. Below you will find reference to
courses from a number of institutions. Click on them for more
details.
We have also seen details of some one-off courses.
Click her for a page with details of some electronic courses and demonstrations.
The Centre for Applied Social
Surveys (or email
for details) has many short courses on survey sampling;
quantitative survey design and data collection; survey data
analysis; and allied topics.
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The Civil Service
College has courses geared to civil servants. These include
Statistics for Management and Policy; The Statistics of
Environmental Sampling; Sampling for Scientists, Technologists
and Researchers; and many others.
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The IACR at Rothamsted runs two-day
courses on Statistical Concepts for Statistics; Planning,
analysis and interpretation of scientific experiments; the
Analysis of Repeated Measures and Statistical Modelling for
Scientists as well as courses linked to the Genstat
software. Email Peter
Lane for details.
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The International Society for
Clinical Biostatisticians is developing courses. It has run
one on Cross-over trials. Details from M.J. Campbell.
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The London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has an intensive course in
Epidemiology and Medical Statistics.
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A more general course on developing on-line
courses has been offered by the Open University called Teaching
and Learning on line. The course is directed by Derek
Rowntree and the course administrator is Brenda Parish.
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St. George's
Hospital Medical School in London runs a regular 3-day short
course in research methods. Further details from Dr. Janet Peacock.
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Sofware Product Services (SPS) has a series of courses on data analysis, forecasting and time series; regression analysis and using SAS.
SPSS
(or email for details)
has a range of courses linked to their software. Courses include
CHAID; Classification and Clustering; Building ANOVA models;
Building Predictive Models; Market Segmentation; and Developing
Customer Satisfaction.
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The Statistical
Services Centre at the University of Reading regularly runs
courses for non-statisticians
under the headings of Statistics for Technologist Week and Social
Scientist Week as well as courses for professional statisticians
under the headings of Applied Statistics Weeks (including binary
and categorical data; survival data; multivariate analysis and
repeated measures, Industrial Experimentation) and SAS Weeks.
Other courses include model checking, and Design and Analysis.
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StatSoft run
courses on SPC; Design of Experiments; Survey analysis; as well
as courses linked with their Statistica software. You can email for details.
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Stephen Senn
runs courses on Cross-over trials in Clinical Research and
Statistical Issues in Drug Development.
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The Survey Methods Centre (SCPR)
at SCPR runs a range of short courses (typically 3 days) in
survey methods - for example 'Survey Sampling for Researchers'.
You can email for details.
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The University of Edinburgh Medical
Statistics Unit runs short courses on Survival Analysis;
Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials; and Mixed Models Analysis
of Medical Data using SAS. You can email for details.
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The
University of Essex regularly offers courses in data analysis
for beginners; introduction to survey research; time series
analysis; log linear analysis; latent class analysis/ structural
equations modelling; Bayesian estimation.
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The University of
Lancaster has been offering courses in bootstrap methods;
introduction to SPSS; modelling categorical data; modelling
duration data; statistical modelling in GLIM.
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The University of Leeds runs
courses on Basic Statistics, Analysis of Variance and on
categorical Data Analysis. Further details from Lisa Walder.
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The Department of Medical Statistics at
the University of Leicester is running a series of short
courses primarily aimed at the pharmaceutical industry. You can email for further details.
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The University of Wales College of
Medicine is running a course of seven evening sessions on
Practical Medical Statistics. You can email for details.
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We have noted the following courses:
Statistical Control to be given by George EP Box and J Stuart Hunter (email for further information).
Handling non-response organised by the Centre for Applied Social Surveys.
A series of training courses organised by the Medical and Pharmaceutical Statistics Research Unit. More details from Nigel Stallard. These include several courses on various aspects of clinical trials.
Institutionen for Ekonomi och Informatik in Sweden is organising a course in Statistics for Handling Officers at the National Labour Market. You can email for details.
The CTI Centre for Statistics keeps an up to date diary of one-off courses and conferences.
