Usher Institute, CMVM

Module

Introduction to Statistics

Academic year

2022-2023

Notes

Support within the MSc in Data Science for Health and Social Care.

DRPS synthesis

Learning objectives

• Understand core statistical ideas used in health and social care data work.
• Interpret outputs from introductory statistical analyses.

Course content

• Descriptive statistics, inference, and interpretation of health-data examples.
• Introductory statistics support for a data-science MSc context.

Assessment profile

• Coursework-based assessment focused on applied statistical tasks.