Event Series Winter O Welcome

Working with Your Supervisor

Office Modular 2 (OM2) 1161 Alumni Avenue, Kelowna, BC, Canada +1 more

A healthy relationship between you and your supervisor is key to your success and wellbeing as a graduate student. Attend this workshop to learn practical approaches to build a productive relationship with your supervisor.

Population, Sampling, Sampling Distribution and Central Limit Theorem

Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, Canada

This session will introduce participants to the foundational concepts of statistical inference, including population distributions and the process of random sampling. Attendees will learn how sampling distributions evolve towards normality as sample sizes increase and will visually explore the Central Limit Theorem.

By the end of the session, participants should be able to visualize and understand population distributions, illustrate random sampling processes, recognize the normalizing effect of larger samples on sampling distributions, and demonstrate the Central Limit Theorem visually.

Free

Fitting Linear Models in `R`

Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, Canada

This workshop will illustrate how to fit linear models in R, diagnose any issues with model assumption violations, and interpret linear model summaries, including model coefficients, degrees of freedom, standard error estimates, t statistics, F statistics, p-values, R2, statistical significance, adjusted R2.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to fit linear models in R and interpret model outputs, including the output of the summary() function in R.

Free

Visualizing Errors and Common Pitfalls

Library Building (LIB) 3287 University Way, Kelowna, BC, Canada

This session will address the visualization of standard deviation (s.d.), standard error of the mean (s.e.m.), and confidence interval (CI) error bars to enhance the understanding of uncertainty in data analysis. The interpretation of error bars for statistical significance will be discussed, along with common misinterpretations to avoid.

By the end of the session, participants should be able to visualize and interpret error bars, understand the implications of their spacing and width, and be cautious of common pitfalls such as misinterpreting non-overlapping error bars as evidence of significance.

Free