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Quantitative skills

Averages, spread and precision (Pharmacy)

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Practise calculating averages and measures of spread for datasets in pharmacy, distinguish between accuracy and precision in experimental results, and quantify these concepts using calculations such as % RSD and % difference.

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Learning outcomes

  • Calculate different measures of average and spread for provided datasets.
  • Assess between high and low experimental precision and accuracy.
  • Calculate precision (% RSD) and accuracy (% difference) of experimental data.
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Skills

Manipulating and Presenting Data

  • How to calculate statistical values from various datasets

Interpreting and Analysing Data

  • How to calculate averages and spread of data for provided pharmacy datasets

Concepts, Principles and Theories

  • How to identify representations of high and low accuracy and precision
  • How to determine whether 'true known values' are possible

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School of Biosciences, University of Kent

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Pharmaceutical science

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Scientific literacy

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Quantitative skills

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