1-2-1 Consultation: Online

This session will help you:

• Determine the necessary sample size to achieve reliable results.
• Ensure that your proposed design is suitable for statistical testing.
• Confirm your data analysis approach and seek further guidance on appropriate methods.
• Identify relevant study references.

The statistics 1-2-1 sessions are NOT:

• Designed for regular, intensive statistical tutoring.
• Intended to solve all your statistical challenges.
• A service where a statistician conducts your analysis for you.
• Meant for correcting your results.
• A way to have a statistician interpret results and write conclusions on your behalf.

It is provided to guide/support you in your analysis.

One-to-one consultation is usually online and last for about one hour.

How to request one-to-one session? Send email to our IT Service Desk it.servicedesk@newcastle.ac.uk providing as much detail as possible about your query.

Statistical Training for Researchers

• SPSS Beginners’ and Advanced
• SAS Base, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner (Text Analytics)

SPSS Training Course for Beginners contents

• Some Basics
• The SPSS Help System
• Getting Started with SPSS for Windows
• SPSS Menus and Toolbar
• Graphical Presentation of Data (Data Visualisation)
• Statistical Significance and Inference (Paired sample and independent samples t-tests, One-sample t test)
• Correlation Analysis (Pearson and Spearman)
• Measures of Association and Analysing Data of more than two groups
• Introduction to Non-Parametric Statistics

SPSS Training Course for Advanced user contents

• Beginners’ course overview
• Ordinary Linear Regression (how to control for factors).
• Simple, 2-Way and n-Way ANOVAs / Reliability analysis
• Intraclass Correlation (ICC)
• Binary Logistic Regression
• Survival Analysis
• Repeated Measures Analysis
• Data Analysis Using Crosstabulation Techniques
• Ordinal Regression
• Multivariate Analysis (MANOVA) / Factor Analysis

SAS Enterprise Guide

• Importing Excel Data and Creating Notes
• Data Exploration using Charts, Summary Statistics and Correlation
• Table Analysis (Chi-Square Test)
• Combine Reports into a Single Document

SAS Base

• Programming Language
• Working with SAS Libraries
• Telling SAS Where to Find Your Raw Data
• Basic Statistical Procedures
  • PROC UNIVARIATE
  • PROC MEANS
  • PROC FREQ
  • PROC CORR
  • PROC ANOVA
  • PROC GLM
  • PROC TTEST
  • PROC NPAR1WAY
  • PROC REG

SAS Enterprise Miner (Text Miner)

• SAS Enterprise Miner project
• Text Parsing
• Text Filter
• Text Cluster node
• Text Topic node

How to register for Statistics Training

Training for researchers through Faculties

The training is arranged with training coordinators from the faculties. You can register by visiting NCL Workshop Booking: https://workshops.ncl.ac.uk/ .

Training for Colleagues through Organisation Development (OD)

Colleagues also have access to the training via OD. Colleagues can register by visiting Elements https://elements.ncl.ac.uk/.