#StatsFTW #AHCJ14


Do statistics often leave you feeling out on a limb when health reporting?

Have you stared down graphs, p-values and tables in medical papers and wished you could 
decipher the statistical methods and language? 


A big thank you to everyone who packed the hall and participated - we really enjoyed!
   Hilda Bastian & Kathleen Raven

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#StatsFTW #AHCJ14                                             

This was our workshop at AHCJ14, AHCJ Health Journalism 2014, in Denver on Thursday, 27 March 2014 from 3.15 to 4.20pm:
       
         Statistics: Basic tips for better stories

Have no fear: no prior experience in statistics is necessary. Statistically Funny's Hilda Bastian (whose day job is at the NIH, where she's editor at PubMed Health) and Kathleen Raven (writer, Reuters Health) will make the time fly. And you'll know more about confidence intervals, meta-analyses and hypothesis/significance testing.

The workshop is part of a larger conversation for journalists. Kathleen is gathering resources over at Noises and Numbers - and Hilda will produce Statistically Funny posts to help journalists keep building reliable statistics skills. We plan on developing more workshops too.

Help us shape the most useful workshop we can in March - and shape the ongoing project as well via Twitter and here. Share your wish lists, your stumbling blocks and the kinds of research papers and methods you want to decipher. And just as importantly, examples of what you have found most useful. Hilda is on Twitter @hildabast and Kathleen's @sci2mrw. Tweet with #StatsFTW and #AHCJ14 and we'll capture and share thoughts.

PS: There will be candy to help the statistics go down. If you could spare a few seconds to answer 3 anonymous multiple choice questions, that would be great. Launch the candy survey. 

* FTW = For the win!



Statistically Funny is a personal project. The thoughts Hilda Bastian expresses at Statistically Funny are personal, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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