I’m currently reading ‘medical statistics made easy’ to refresh my statistical knowledge, since it has been a while.
There are books that explain these concepts in an easy way.
Or else you can ask if they will fund a University course. When I was working in Singapore I needed to know PivotTables in Excel and I didn’t. My boss paid for a course at the National University of Singapore. Still have the certificate.
I pre-hacked a bunch of spreadsheets with the formulas pre-entered. Just have to plug numbers in one side and the results come out the other. Time saver when calculating premiums for large fleets.
IMO It’s very easy to make a mistake if you’re plugging numbers into formulas if you don’t understand the formals well. Do a good time explaining to your boss(es) what you’re working on and they’ll understand you already have your plate full. So “I’m working on A, B, C & D now but I can learn statistics later.”
I did something similar, I told a director I’d like to work on improving some processes but was too busy with grunt work and he took the grunt work away. Anywho,
They won’t do that I don’t think, but I spoke to my manager, and we’re going to sort out training.
Building Excel models is my speciality! Now I am learning to do it in R. Going well. Already taken a project that was not complete, and adapted it - and it works!
I have also learned how to use other platforms as well, and Python is next
It was just this stats thing is not really relevant right now, and my manager agreed with me that it will take some time/training to get there.
I will. It was just the person who put this on me was trying it on. But he is being ‘informed’ that this is not currently my area of expertise, and that I am a work in progress!
Agreed. But the formulas are being built by R functions and commands, so effectively my coding skill is enough right now to get the work done, and within the team there is plenty of knowledge in this area to support each other. This is what we’re doing now until I get up to speed.
Evaluation of results needs a group effort, and my manager I think agrees with this
My confidence has never been that good. But thank you for encouraging.
It’s been really a great start, but this stats thing is going to take time, and as I spoke to my manager about this in the end, I will be getting proper training.
