Statistics Webinar Series Number 6 – Statistical Understanding: Bringing it all together

The Final Statistics Webinar!

On Thursday 8th October we are hosting the last in a series of statistics webinars with Dr Sian Williams (University of Brighton). This session will bring together and review some of the topics covered in previous webinars. If there are any topics or questions that you would particularly like to see covered please do get in touch with us via [email protected] and we will pass this onto Sian. These could be topics already covered that you would like more information on or completely new topics.

Many thanks,

Dr Sian Williams and The BOPA Committee

 

To be covered in the FINAL Webinar:

The below Lancet Paper will be discussed in the final webinar.  Please read this in advance of the session.

COVID-19 mortality in patients with cancer on chemotherapy or other anticancer treatments: a prospective cohort study –
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31173-9/fulltext

 

BOPA present a 6 part live e-learning Statistics Webinar series to help you understand and work on Statistics without Tears! We’ve got a great speaker lined up with content that will be vital in your oncology pharmacy career. The sessions will be interactive and questions will be welcomed to help you with your statistical fears. We will run these on a monthly basis and will be FREE for BOPA paid members.

Speaker:

Sian Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology and Pharmacy Practice at the University of Brighton. She has over 20 years experience of teaching statistics to undergraduates and postgraduates in a range of health professions and with a range of experience (and levels of statistics-phobia!).

Sessions and Dates:

Each webinar will run at 18:00 (BST)

Thursday 8th October 2020Statistical Understanding: Bringing it all together

-Information on the FINAL webinar is HERE: STATISTICS Webinar 6

-REGISTER for the event HERE and you will receive an email with the Zoom link before the event

PLEASE NOTE: All webinars will be recorded and will be made available on the BOPA website for paying members as a Statistics eLearning module as soon as possible after the event  – Access Statistics eLearning series HERE

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