Facilitator: Ms Carmen Stindt has worked as a Statistical Consultant since 2016, assisting postgraduate students and researchers with statistical analysis for their degree or research papers. She currently runs her own statistical consultation company, Eversci, and has previously lectured at Nelson Mandela University. Ms Stindt also facilitates monthly workshops for postgraduate students and staff, with a passion for empowering students with statistical understanding. She holds an MCom in Statistics Research and is pursuing a PhD in Mathematical Statistics.


Target Group: Postgraduate Students.


Background: The main aim of this workshop is to get participants comfortable working with R. The workshop is aimed at students who want to learn R and how to perform basic descriptive statistics using this software. The course will start with learning the basics in base R and R Commander. Handling of raw data and the assessment of this data will also be discussed and performed using R. The session will also include performing basic descriptive statistics within this package, creating graphical illustrations and numerical statistics.


The following topics will be covered:

  • Organising qualitative and quantitative data, including generating graphs
  • Measures of location (mean, media, mode)
  • Measures of dispersions (range, variance and standard deviation)
  • Measures of relative standard deviation (percentiles, quartiles box-whisker plot)

 

If you would like to attend the workshop above, please complete the following form and submit, after which you will receive an email indicating receipt of the form.

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This workshop is funded by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) through the University Capacity Development Grant (UCDG)

 

Workshop Information

Date:

  • 2 April 2025

Time:

  • 09h00-16h00

Venue:

  • To be confirmed (kindly note that this workshop is in-person only)

Registration:

  • Registration is open via the online form on this page.

 

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