Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the Recess Room podcast. I'm Simon Lang, and I'm all by myself. There is no Rob and no James. So this episode is completely

different to normal. It is a one-off. But what we want to give you is an opportunity to have a

listen to one of the episodes from our online podcast course, The Critical Appraisal Lowdown.

So we've mentioned this in previous episodes, but we thought we'd treat you to the content that's in it. So the course itself has a syllabus which runs you through

the fundamentals of critical appraisal right through to examples of critically appraising papers.

And whether you're revising for an exam, want to brush up on your critical appraisal, or indeed

you want to start from scratch and learn about critical appraisal and start to deliver evidence-based practice to your patients via

critical appraisal, then this could be the course for you. In total, there are 18 podcasts

and a final quiz with a CPD certificate. And throughout each episode, there are MCQs to test your knowledge,

ensure that you're gaining a good grasp of the fundamentals discussed,

and also some additional information there on the web pages.

So this is just one of the episodes,

so have a listen and see what you think.

Thank you. Statistical methods

So statistics at its heart is the science of collecting and analysing numerical data in order

to infer meaning from that data.

And when we're performing research, data is what we're collecting, be that qualitative or quantitative.

Now fortunately, statisticians exist for a really good reason,

because at times statistics can be quite complicated,

and attempting to understand the entire breadth of statistics

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