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Events 2009

Event 2009

• 2 April 2009 13:00 - 15:00
  Frans Gregersen - Professor, University of Copenhagen
  
• 21 April 2009 13:00 - 15:00
  Laura Balling - Research assistant, MA, cand.mag. CBS
  Why bother about statistics – and how? Some basic concepts illustrated in R
  This presentation is motivated by a sense that many researchers at ISV and IKK either already work on quantitative data or would like to do so, but perhaps lack some statistical tools. I want to present some basic statistical concepts and techniques that I, as a quantitative linguist with no mathematical background, have found useful. I will also introduce the statistics programme 'R'. 'R' is an open-source (free) programme that is very flexible and can perform operations from the most basic addition and subtraction to the most complex and specialised statistical models. I will use 'R' to illustrate the most important concepts with data examples.
  I will begin the presentation by discussing the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics: descriptive statistics is useful for describing a dataset, while inferential statistical methods allow the researcher to generalise beyond the data collected. Then, I will focus on what is required to allow such generalisation. Finally, I will talk about how different hypotheses can be tested in different empirical designs and about the statistical tests that are appropriate for the different designs.
  The presentation will be in English.
  
• 7 January 2009
  Ole Lauridsen, head of ASB Learning Styles Lab
  What are teaching styles, and how can teaching styles be used in everyday life?
  This lecture is in Danish.
• 24 Februray 2009 13:00 - 15:00
  Anne Holmen - professor, PhD, ved Institut for Pædagogik, DPU, Aarhus Universitet.
• ”Engelsk som undervisningssprog på de videregående uddannelser – er der et særligt tredjesprogsproblem for studerende med dansk som andetsprog?” (in Danish only)