ION Statistical Support Service

1. Aim of service

The aim of the service is to provide ION staff and students with support on the statistical aspects of a research project. The following areas are covered:

  • Study design and planning of statistical analysis
  • Sample size calculations
  • Descriptive and inferential statistics
  • Presentation and interpretation of statistical analysis results

2. Description of service

The Statistical Support service for MSc and PhD students is based at the Education Unit (7 Queen Square, Ground Floor). If you are an MSc or PhD student and would like to make an appointment for support, please complete the  Statistics meeting request form and return by e-mail to Dr Khadija Rantell.

If you are a member of staff at IoN, or you work in either the PRION unit or the stroke unit, please complete the Statistics form on the Joint Research Office website (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jro/biostatistics/Biostatistics_support) and return it by e-mail or fax to Sarah Hayden (details on the JRO website).

3. Joint UCLH/UCL/RFH Biomedical Research Unit on-line course


Students at the UCL Institute of Neurology are encouraged to complete an on-line basic Statistics for Research course offered by the Joint UCLH/UCL/RFH Biomedical Research Unit (see link below). The core part of this course comprises the following modules:

  1. Basic study design
  2. Design of observational studies
  3. Estimation and hypothesis testing (part 1)
  4. Estimation and hypothesis testing (part 2)
  5. Analysis of continuous data
  6. More analysis of continuous data
  7. Analysis of categorical data
  8. More analysis of categorical data
  9. Sample size calculation


The aim of these lectures is to provide an introduction to quantitative methods for health researchers and postgraduate students, and to provide a refresher or revision course for those researchers who have previously attended a module or short course. Some elements of this online course form a compulsory part of the assessment for students on the Clinical Neuroscience MSc.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Stats/weblectures/

4. Some suggested reading

  1. The following pre-course reading material is recommended:
  2. Medical Statistics at a Glance (Aviva Petrie and Caroline Sabin, 2005): Pages 8-19
  3. Practical Statistics for Medical Research (Altman, 1990): Pages 10-47
  4. Statistics at Square One (Campbell, 2002): Chapters 1-2

The UCL Institute of Neurology promotes teaching and research of the highest quality in neurology and the neurosciences. The Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery are members of  UCL Partners, Europe's largest academic health science partnership.