Statistical Consulting Centre

30/01/2026

Here’s the link to register for our online training course Mixed Models in R.

https://scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/statistics-courses/course-listing/mixed-models

01/08/2025

In the Centre, we balance consulting and training. We've been developing interactive Shiny apps to demonstrate important statistical ideas. Check this one out, on the connection between confidence intervals and P-values.

Interactive app: Confidence intervals and P-values

11/02/2025

At the end of this month we are running our 2-day workshop "Introduction to R and Reproducible Research".

This is delivered face to face, by two expert users of R, both with considerable experience as statisticians and data scientists. You will learn efficiently and effectively from people who know (deeply) what they are talking about, and can communicate it well.

Introduction to R and Reproducible Research

12/06/2024

Now open for registration! New format for 2024, access till February 2025.

17/01/2024

Come join us: Three weeks to go before Mixed models in R course starts online - fee paying.
Feedback on the course:
o Great friendly, chatty, caring environment created by Graham and Cam. Well done.
o Very useful. I work in linguistics, where mixed models have basically become the norm, but I always used to find them intimidating. I feel that I can begin to use them now.
o These were enormously useful to have at the same time. Particularly for running the code if we liked simultaneously. It was also really great when there were interpretations of the models/residuals etc.
o The exercises matched what was taught and helped consolidate learning.

https://ecommerce.unimelb.edu.au/mixed-models-in-r

30/01/2023

Starts in three weeks - Statistics for Research Workers using R and R Markdown course - ONLINE - Come join us!
Do you need to understand statistical ideas and methods to carry out your research? Do you use these methods in your data science work?

This very popular comprehensive course provides an introduction to foundational statistical methods and ideas used throughout statistics and data science. It uses R statistical software with RStudio and R Markdown.
More information:

Workshop in R, statistics for research workers, srw, statistics, R,statistics training using R

12/01/2023

Starts in under a month - Statistics for Research Workers using R and R Markdown course - ONLINE - Come join us!
Do you need to understand statistical ideas and methods to carry out your research?
This very popular comprehensive course provides an introduction to foundational statistical methods and ideas used throughout statistics and data science. It uses R statistical software with RStudio and R Markdown.
More information:

Workshop in R, statistics for research workers, srw, statistics, R,statistics training using R

16/11/2022

Starts in one week! Statistics for Research Workers using R and R Markdown - 23 to 30 Novmeber 2022: fee paying course. Do you need to understand statistical ideas and methods to carry out your research? Come and join us!

Workshop in R, statistics for research workers, srw, statistics, R,statistics training using R

23/07/2022

Amelia Lester, Age "Good Weekend", 23 July 2022:

"What's more, walking for 15 minutes daily reduces the chance of death by 22 per cent, which is the sort of stat that always confuses me because isn't everyone's risk of death 100 per cent?"

Exactly! Yes, Amelia. You have understood something many researchers do not. Risks and rates are not the same thing. As Keynes said: "In the long run, we are all dead." We may talk meaningfully about the 5-year risk of death, etc., but it's best to use rates for death and similar events.

23/03/2022

During the recent floods in NSW, the NSW premier said it was a "1 in 1,000 year" event. Barnaby Joyce upped the ante to "1 in 3,500 years". I am not sure where they are getting these estimates; I saw a Bureau of Meteorology person say : "Not from us".

I wrote a letter to The Age about it:

15/10/2021

The geographical distribution plots here loosely showing local government areas located within Melbourne Metropolitan area regarding COVID-19 cases and percentage of population vaccinated to 14 October 2021.