Introductory statistics in GraphPad Prism

Target Audience:

All VIB staff

Location:

Leuven

General context

The theoretical background obtained in the Basic statistics theory training will be applied in a hands-on session on real-life data using the statistical software GraphPad Prism.

Learning outcomes

In this hands-on session, you will apply the theory that you learnt in the Basic statistics theory training in Prism. The following topics will be covered:

How to use Prism for simple statistical analyses: t tests, one-way ANOVA and non-parametric counterparts
How to use Prism for more advanced statistical analyses: two-way ANOVA
How to use Prism to create graphs
Curve fitting in Prism
Survival analysis in Prism

Participants can bring their own data to the training.

Event intended for

VIB Bioinformatics Core distributes the Prism software for free to VIB scientists, for more information you can visit the GraphPad Prism page on www.bits.vib.be. This is the reason why the training is limited to VIB scientists.

Required skills

In this course we will not explain the basic statistical concepts that are used by Prism such as categorical versus quantitative data, normal distribution, mean, median, confidence intervals, statistical tests, p-values ... We will simply show how to use the software for statistical analyses. If you're not familiar with these concepts you should attend the Basic statistics theory training.

Course materials

Training material

Trainers

Janick Mathys

VIB Training and Conferences, BE

Janick tries to help VIB scientists analyze their data by offering bioinformatics training and support. Next to organizing trainings, creating e-learning courses and teaching statistics, R, Python, Linux, HPC, bulk and single cell RNA-Seq analysis, she consults scientists and develops pipelines for omics analyses. Before joining VIB, she worked as a post-doc at KULeuven, doing research on transcriptomics and transcription regulation. She coordinated the Master of Bioinformatics program of KULeuven and taught the course on Biological Databases.

ORCID

Contact Janick Mathys :

janick.mathys@vib.be