Data Analytics 1: Introduction to Statistics

Two day course

23rd and 24th March 2026 - 9:30-16:30 each day

• free for University of Birmingham staff and students (register with UoB email address)

• £495 for NHS staff (you will be sent a separate payment link)

• £695 for Health Innovation West Midlands Staff (you will be sent a separate payment link)

• £995 for other external staff (you will be sent a separate payment link)

This two-day course will cover the fundamentals of statistics, with a focus on practically implementing the methods as well as understanding why they work.

This course applies the mathematical principles that underpin these statistical methods to real-world bioprocessing data and relates this to how we determine significant differences in both academic experiments and industrial R&D.

Learning outcomes

• What are statistics? How do we summarise variation of data?

• Learn How to Perform:

• A T-test to compare two groups

• Analysis of variance (ANOVA)

• Linear regression and correlation

• Chi-square tests and non-parametric tests

Who this course is aimed at?