Stats Advice

Statistics support is offered to:

  • Undergraduates (excluding Honours Statistics students)
  • All Postgraduate Taught students

If you are unsure about the level of Stats support available for your course, please email George.Vazanellis@glasgow.ac.uk.

Semester 1 Maths & Stats Drop-in and Class Timetables

Introduction to Statistics (for any UofG Student)

This particular course will be led by the Statistics Adviser.

> Moodle page for this series (includes slides and any recordings) - https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=140

Date & TimeTitleDescriptionVenue
Wed 2nd Oct 13:00 - 14:00 Introduction to R - Part 1 This series is for any student who will be working with data as part of their assignments, project, or dissertation. It will cover some fundamental concepts in statistics as well as how to use R Studio, a widely used statistical environment, to perform and present analyses. This first session introduces some of the basic functionality of R Studio. Bring your laptop with you to follow along! James McCune Smith Learning Hub 507
Wed 9th Oct 13:00 - 14:00 Introduction to R - Part 2 In the second session of this series, we will become more comfortable with R Studio and use it to create impactful graphs and predictive models.  James McCune Smith Learning Hub 507
Wed 16th Oct 13:00 - 14:00 Descriptive Statistics The third session in this series looks at what information we can draw immediately from our data, while still painting a more complete picture than a simple average. We will cover measures of central tendencies, dispersion, and position.   James McCune Smith Learning Hub 507
Wed 23rd Oct 13:00 - 14:00 Probability To certainly give students a better chance of answering the question "how likely was that?", our fourth session covers the basic rules of probability, as well as both discrete and continuous probability distributions. James McCune Smith Learning Hub 507
Wed 30th Oct 13:00 - 14:00 Hypothesis Testing This fifth session will cover hypothesis testing, which is used to draw conclusions about a whole population from a sample of data, e.g. how can news outlets call an election with only a fraction of the votes tallied? We will discuss how to choose the null and alternative hypothesis, and which distributions to use. James McCune Smith Learning Hub 507
Wed 6th Nov 13:00 - 14:00 Simple and Multiple Linear Regression This sixth session will discuss the relationship, or more precisely the correlation, between variables, and how to describe these relationships using simple and multiple linear regression. We will use R to generate a best fit line to pairwise ordered data, and then also generate a more complex linear model. James McCune Smith Learning Hub 507
Wed 13th Nov 13:00 - 14:00 Logistic and Multinomial Regression Does the amount of time a student spends studying increase the probability of passing their course, and if so, what’s my probability of passing if I spend x hours studying? This session will show how this can be answered using logistic regression, and how this can be implemented in R. James McCune Smith Learning Hub 507
Wed 20th Nov 13:00 - 14:00 Flexible Regression Sometimes a linear model won’t be appropriate to model the data we have and we have to instead use a flexible yet smooth curve.  The last of our sessions will show how to create a flexible regression model using the R package “mgcv”. James McCune Smith Learning Hub 507

Stats Drop-Ins (for any UofG student)

> Moodle page for Maths & Stats advice - https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=140

DateTimeVenueDescription
Fri 25th Oct 10:00-11:00 All in St Andrews Building 202

Open to students with any statistics question (other than Honours level statistics courses). Come in for help with theory or issues with statistical software.

No booking required.

Fri 15th Nov 10:00-11:00
Fri 29th Nov 10:00-11:00

 

Maths Essentials (for any UofG student)

Aimed at Nat 5/GSCE level, this series will cover the essential maths skills needed for students who are required to do basic calculations in their studies or future work. This particular course will be led by the Maths Adviser.

> Moodle page for this series (includes slides and practice questions) - https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=46640

Date & Time Title Description Venue
Mon 30th Sep
10:00-11:00
Fractions, decimals and percentages

This session covers fractions, percentages and decimals.

Gilbert Scott 250
Thu 3rd Oct
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Mon 7th Oct
10:00-11:00
Rearranging Equations This session covers basic algebraic manipulation of equations. Gilbert Scott 250

Thu 10th Oct
15:00-16:00

Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Mon 14th Oct
10:00-11:00
Unit Conversions and Scientific Notation This session covers unit conversions and scientific notation. Gilbert Scott 250
Thu 17th Oct
15:00-16:00
Tutorial  Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Mon 21st Oct
10:00-11:00
Linear relationships This session covers straight lines. Gilbert Scott 250
Thu 24th Oct
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Mon 28th Oct
10:00-11:00
Functions This session covers what a function is and how to evaluate them. Gilbert Scott 250
Thu 31st Oct
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Mon 4th Nov
10:00-11:00
Powers and Logarithms This session covers powers and logarithms. Gilbert Scott 250
Thu 7th Nov
15:00-16:00
Tutorials Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Mon 11th Nov
10:00-11:00
Basic Probability This session covers basic probability. Gilbert Scott 250
Thu 14th Nov
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Mon 18th Nov
10:00-11:00
Trigonometry This session covers Pythagoras and SOHCAHTOA. Gilbert Scott 250
Thu 21st Nov
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Mon 25th Nov
10:00-11:00
Quadratics This session covers parabolas. Gilbert Scott 250
Thu 28th Nov
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253

Higher / A Level Maths Refreshers (for any UofG student)

This series will cover the maths skills needed for any student who has Higher (or A Level) Maths as a prerequisite for their course. This particular course will be led by the Maths Adviser.

> Moodle page for this series (includes slides and any practice question) - https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=46897

Date & Time Title Description Venue
Tue 1st Oct
15:00-16:00
Graphs

This series will cover the maths skills needed for any student who has Higher (or A Level) Maths as a prerequisite for their course. This session covers how to relate graphs to real world processes.

Adam Smith Building 582
Thu 3rd Oct
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Tue 8th Oct
15:00-16:00
Algebra This session covers algebraic manipulation, inequalities and simultaneous equations. Adam Smith Building 582

Thu 10th Oct
15:00-16:00

Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Tue 15th Oct
15:00-16:00
Powers and Logarithms This session covers powers and logarithms. Adam Smith Building 582
Thu 17th Oct
15:00-16:00
Tutorial  Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Tue 22nd Oct
15:00-16:00
Straight Lines and Quadratics This session covers straight line and quadratic equations. Adam Smith Building 582
Thu 24th Oct
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Tue 29th Oct
15:00-16:00
Functions This session covers functions including composition and inverses.  Adam Smith Building 582
Thu 31st Oct
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Tue 5th Nov
15:00-16:00
Differentiation  This session covers differentiation, including optimisation. Adam Smith Building 582
Thu 7th Nov
15:00-16:00
Tutorials Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Tue 12th Nov
15:00-16:00
Integration This session covers the basics of integration. Adam Smith Building 582
Thu 14th Nov
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Tue 19th Nov
15:00-16:00
Trigonometry This session covers trig graphs, identities and how to solve trig equations. Adam Smith Building 582
Thu 21st Nov
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253
Tue 26th Nov
15:00-16:00
Vectors This session covers the basics of vectors including addition, scalar multiplication and the dot product. Adam Smith Building 582
Thu 28th Nov
15:00-16:00
Tutorial Come along to this session to try out the skills you learned during this week's lecture, with help on hand if you have any questions. Gilbert Scott 253

Graduate Numeracy (for any UofG student)

This particular course will be led by the Maths Adviser.

> Moodle page for this series (includes slides and any recordings) - https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=140

Date & Time Title Description Venue
Mon 28th Oct
13:00 - 14:00
Workshop 1 - Percentages

Are you applying for jobs? Graduate Numeracy tests (which are also called numerical reasoning tests) are used by many employers as part of the recruitment process for jobs and internships. The lectures are targeted at students who have done little or no maths in their degree, to give them the skills and the confidence needed to tackle the types of questions that arise.

The workshops will be a chance to practice the skills demonstrated in the Graduate Numeracy session or to bring along any questions you have about the content. You should bring your own laptop or device with you.

St Andrews Building 432
Fri 1st Nov
11:00 - 12:00
Tutorial 1 - Percentages Adam Smith Building 381
Mon 4th Nov
13:00 - 14:00
Workshop 2 - Ratios and Interpreting Graphs St Andrews Building 432
Fri 8th Nov
11:00 - 12:00
Tutorial 2 - Ratios and Interpreting Graphs Adam Smith Building 381
Mon 11th Nov
13:00 - 14:00
Workshop 3 - Tips for Speed St Andrews Building 432
Fri 15th Nov
11:00 - 12:00
Tutorial 3 - Tips for Speed Adam Smith Building 381

Maths Drop-Ins (for any UofG student)

> Moodle page for Maths & Stats advice - https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=140

DateTimeVenueDescription
Mon 30th Sept 14:00-16:00 All in Room 305 of McMillan Round Reading Room 

Open to any student with any maths question (other than Honours level mathematics courses). 

No booking required - just turn up with the problem you’re working on and your relevant course notes.

Mon 7th Oct 14:00-16:00
Mon 14th Oct 14:00-16:00
Mon 21st Oct 14:00-16:00
Mon 28th Oct 14:00-16:00
Mon 4th Nov 14:00-16:00
Mon 11th Nov 14:00-16:00
Mon 18th Nov 14:00-16:00
Mon 25th Nov 14:00-16:00

There will be further maths drop-ins held in the run up to exams in December. Check back here for a more detailed timetable nearer the exam diet.

Dr George Vazanellis

George is the Statistics Adviser workign within SLD. He has a PhD in statistics from the University of Glasgow.

He offers 1:1 appointments and other group teaching activities throughout the academic year.

Teaching Requests

George can provide statistics support to undergraduate and postgraduate taught degrees across all colleges. To find out what teaching he can offer your course, please get in touch by email.

For individual students looking for help, please feel free to book a one-to-one appointment.