Seminar of the UCL Network of Applied Statistician in Health (NASH) on 21 May 2024. This was a double bill with Hilary Watt (Senior Teaching Fellow and Stats Teaching Expert at Imperial College) and Peter Martin (Associate Professor in Biostatistics, UCL). The presentations offer conceptual explanations of p-values and confidence intervals that steer away from common poor standards of applied statistical interpretations. If it's your job to teach students hypothesis tests and/or to explain to your collaborators why p<0.05 does NOT mean "Hurray, we found an effect", this seminar is for you! (Presentation slides are available as attachments.)

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5/28/2024

Seminar by Prof Andrew Gelman (University of Columbia) at UCL on 13 June 2023. Andrew Gelman opened his famous bag of teaching tricks and considered new directions for statistics education. This recording includes Prof Gelman's talk and the subsequent Q&A session.

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6/26/2023

In this masterclass, Prof Ruth King (University of Edinburgh) discusses the issue of making proactive decisions within an academic career. Academics, and statisticians in particular, frequently receive requests to contribute their energy and time to various projects and tasks. It is impossible to say yes to all such requests. But how to decide when to say yes, and how to say no wisely and gracefully?

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5/17/2023