Data management and introduction to biostatistics
How data is collected, stored, and summarised in community-based research, from types of data through to simple regression.
In person · Methods and data
5 days · 10 Seagrave Road, Avondale, Harare
What the course covers
- Why data matters in community-based research
- Types of data: quantitative and qualitative
- Basic descriptive statistics
- Comparative statistics: parametric and nonparametric tests
- Odds ratios and relative risk
- Simple and multiple regression
- Statistics in qualitative research
- Data collection, including electronic tools and cloud storage
- Designing data collection instruments
- Data entry, storage, cleaning, and analysis
Faculty
Mildred Pepukai, Dr Mapako, Prof Machekano