Statistical Thinking
General context
The course mission is to help researchers to see statistics as an intrinsic part of research. Not as a tool that provides standard output when given an input, but a mean to help integrate their knowledge to allow them making objective decisions.
To achieve this, we should get rid of deeply embedded misconceptions about some common statistical tools and replace them by a more intelligent and flexible use of statistics based on understanding of the important principles.
A selection of important topics will be covered in dialogue with the course takers.
Researchers and research managers interested in improving their research by applying important statistical principles that go beyond applying standard tools without understanding them.
- This course if free for VIB participants
- Non-VIB participants pay a fee of 50 euro
- This course is not open for industry
- Note that upon no-show without valid justification you will be blacklisted for the VIB training program for 1 year and a fee of €100 will be charged. Click here for more information
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This training is organised in collaboration with the Helis Academy. More information see https://helisacademy.com/nl/data-analysis-stewardship
Trainers
Joris De Wolf
Joris De Wolf has a long track record in biostatistics. He worked at Crop-Design, later BASF, as team leader of the biostatistics group. He was involved in the experimental design and start-up of the high-throughput phenotyping system TraitMill, design of the databases and streamlining of statistical analyses. Furthermore, he was responsible for the field testing pipeline and statistics on transgenic yield improvement. In 2016, he joined GSK vaccines. Currently he works full time as a biostatistics consultant.
Program
- Introduction
- Case studies to make clear that simple application of statistics lead to problems
- Discussion in subgroups
- Plenary discussion
- Place of statistics in research
- Intelligent experimental design
- Getting the context clear
- Getting the research question clear
- Deriving a design from that question
- Case studies on reading and displaying results
- Discussion in subgroups
- Plenary discussion
- More than only data: combining expert knowledge and statistics
- Models
- Interpretation
- Conveying the message
- Recap and putting things in the bigger context again
- Closure
Practical info
03 March 2020
Ghent - Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center
Technologiepark 21
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
03 March 2020
Ghent - Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center
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03 March 2020
Ghent - Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center
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03 March 2020
Ghent - Bio-Accelerator Meeting Center
+32 9 328 19 02
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