Statistics for non-Statisticians (1 day)

Duration:

One day course  

What you will take away from this training

• An appreciation for the omnipresence of statistics all around us.
• How can you turn a numerical claim on its head to test whether it is indeed plausible?
• A simple set of calculation rules to make working with proportions tractable – without using paper!
• Refresher in statistics, when to apply what kind of statistics?

Who should attend?

You had some education in statistics, but it has gotten a bit "rusty." Your work brings you in contact with either survey findings, market research, database analysis, in short applications that rely on interpretation of data. You have an interest in numbers, and a willingness to think hard.

Format

This class is a mixture of plenary teaching, but overloaded with real-world examples (many taken from "official" publications and/or newspapers) on which the class will be repeatedly quizzed. By going through the steps of critical thinking, you acquire a feeling for numbers and problem framing again that is needed to work effectively with (basic) statistics.

What prior knowledge and/or experience is required?

No prior knowledge or experience is required for this class. It certainly helps if you wonder about numbers sometimes, figuring: "Gee, that's a really big (or small) amount! Could that really be possible?"

Instructor

Tom Breur, is principal of XLNT Consulting, dedicated to helping companies make more money with their data. He started his career using COBOL and punchcards, and has been working with computers for 35 years since then. The last 25 years of these have been in areas we nowadays call "business intelligence." He has written dozens of papers in peer reviewed Journals, is data quality expert for Beyenetwork, for which he publishes a monthly paper. Tom has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Targeting and the Journal of Financial Services Management for the last 10 years. Tom has trained over 100 Certified Business Intelligence Professionals (TDWI's CBIP certificate). He frequently keynotes at international conferences, and is a lecturer at universities and MBA tracks of TIAS, UFSIA, and ING Business School. His fields of interest span the entire BI value chain from back-end to front-end. From data modeling to data warehousing, data mining and BI strategy, to performance management and scorecarding.

Registration

	Duration: One day course What you will take away from this training An appreciation for the omnipresence of statistics all around us. How can you turn a numerical claim on its head to test whether it is indeed plausible? A simple set of calculation rules to make working with proportions tractable – without using paper! Refresher in statistics, when to apply what kind of statistics? Ticket for training. Early bird price goes up to 3 weeks before start of the training All details can be found in our events, please look at our events section. Read more >>	€595,00 My Cart >>