Webinar: Clearly explained stats with StatQuest!!!

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Ms Teams Online
Description

The Africa Unit for Transdisciplinany health Research warmly invites you to the  clearly explained stats with StatQuest Webinar.

Join this series of meetings where the StatQuest videos from Josh Starmer and the friendly folks at the genetics departments at the North Carolina University Chapel Hill

Twelve virtual weekly appointments are planned to take you on an epic journey through stats land, from basics to multivariate modelling, space reduction and clustering algorithm.


•  Histograms, probability distribution, population sampling and the central limit theorem
•  Statistical hypothesis Part I: Basics, derivation of P-values and interpretation
•  Statistical hypothesis Part II: False discovery rate, P-hacking, and thresholds for significance
•  Likelihood and likelihood distributions
•  Statistical power and effective sample size
•  Linear regression and correlation
•  Generalized linear model
•  Logistic regression part I: Coefficients, maximum likelihood, R2 and P-values
•  Logistic regression part II: ROC and AUC, logistic regression with R
•  Regularization and variable selection with Ridge, Lasso and elastic nets
•  Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and space reduction techniques
•  Multivariate clustering basics and examples of algorithms

 

This webinar will be beneficial to: Supervisors and promotors of undergraduates and postgraduate students, Undergraduates and postgraduate students, Lecturers, Researchers and anyone interested people.

Register for the webinar

Contact Details

Email: Joyce Matsietso

Tell: 018 299 2512