Dr Rebecca Playle
Career Profile
1993-1995 Research Statistician, Health Promotion Wales, Cardiff UK
1995-2001 Medical Statistician, Diabetes Research Unit, Llandough Hospital, Cardiff UK
2001-2001 Lecturer in Statistics, University of Western Sydney, Australia
2001-2001 Research Statistician, University of Sydney, Australia
2002-2004 Lecturer in Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Dept of Epidemiology, University of Wales College Cardiff, UK
2004-2007 Lecturer in Medical Statistics, Cardiff University Dental School, UK
2007-present Part-time secondment as Senior Statistician for the South East Wales Trials Unit, Cardiff University
Memberships / External Activities
Fellow of the HEA
Awards / Prizes
Certificate in Teaching Statistics in Higher Education
Teaching Profile
Undergraduate Teaching topics Year 3
- Introduction to SPSS, data entry, cleaning and management, graphing, summary statistics and the Normal distribution
- Introduction to confidence intervals, sampling variation, testing for normality, confidence intervals for paired data
- Probability and hypothesis testing, paired parametric and non-parametric tests
- Comparson of independent groups, unpaired parametric and non-parametric tests
- Proportions and Caregorical data, Chi-square tests, Relative risks and Odds ratios
Undergraduate Teaching topics Year 4
- Study design
- Statistics for critical appraisal
Postgraduate and Advanced Teaching topics
- Adequacy of statistical information, interpretation of statistical tests, Type I and Type II errors, study planning and power, statistical significance and clinical importance
- Oneway ANOVA, assumptions of ANOVA, model building and checking, post hoc tests
- Two factor ANOVA, fixed and random effects, model building and checking
- Regression, bivariate and multivariate linear regression, assumption checking and model fitting
- Logistic regression, bivariate and multivariate regression