Dear All, Due to some last minute cancellations, we have a couple of places for participants in the forthcoming short-course on Research and Statistics Essentials. If interested please apply here: http://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/application-form-short-course (and confirm) by end of tomorrow. Thanks, Sudhira. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:17 AM, H. S. Sudhira <sudhira@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear All, > > Gubbi Labs as a part of its training program is conducting a series of > short-courses for students, researchers and professionals. The next version > of the short-course on ' > Research and Statistics > <http://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/research-stats-essentials-nov-2013> > Essentials <http://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/research-stats-essentials>' > is going to be held > during > 7th - 9th March 2014. > The last date for online application is > 28th Feb 2014 > . > > <http://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/research-stats-essentials-july-2013> > *Research and Statistics Essentials > <http://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/research-stats-essentials> | 7th - 9th > March 2014* > > "*Research and Statistics Essentials*" is an intense 3-day program > primarily for researchers who are pursuing their Master's or Doctoral > degrees and professionals alike. The course is framed in a such way as to > guide both early career researchers and researchers submitting their > thesis. The first part of the programme deals with research essentials, > aims to enable participants with fundamentals of research and ways to go > about carrying out independent research. It will go through aspects of > defining the research; literature review; framing the objectives and > questions; hypothesis testing, overview of statistical methods and > analytical techniques; and conclude with writing and presentation skills. > The second part deals with statistics essentials, covering topics on nature > of data and data types (parametrics and non-parametric); descriptive > statistics (describing, exploring and comparing data, graphical > representation); distributions; *working with R software*, inferential > statistics; hypothesis testing (t-tests, F-test, etc.) and interpretation > of statistical output. The course will provide hands-on exposure to some of > the tools like Freemind and Mendeley for research essentials and R for > statistics essentials. Click here for more > details<http://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/research-stats-essentials> > . > > Potential participants are encouraged to go through the course > details<http://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/research-stats-essentials> > and apply<http://courses.gubbilabs.in/content/application-form-short-course>. > For more details, please contact: courses@xxxxxxxxxxxx > . > > > Thanks, > Sudhira. >