recommend a good quantitative skills

[dodi1978]

I am a senior Lecturer, social science subject. I am currently working entirely qualitatively, but am moving in to a research area for which quantitative skills will be important, at least to read / understand the research. At the moment, my understanding of quantitative papers goes as far as a good abstract....
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good intro? Realistically, I'd only be able to attend a course in January / June / July (before summer holiday) and September.

Many thanks!

... and the headline should have said 'quantitative skills COURSE'. It's late...!

Hi dodi I am currently looking for similar, but more specialised (a particular type of quantitative technique). I came across these training courses at the Royal Statistical Society and am posting it here in case it'd help you:

www.rss.org.uk/RSS/Training/Public_courses/RSS/pro_dev/RSS_training_courses_sub/public_training.aspx?hkey=80752d6b-205c-4865-8068-ab827079ced2

The course run by the ESRC NCRM tend to be pretty good: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/

For a general overview/introduction to quants, I would probably look for something in your own institution and ask if it's possible for you to sit in. Then you could take a more specific course, such as the ones offered by the NCRM, focussed on the particular techniques used in your new research area.

Look for a Coursera course online in how to use R, which should be your starting point for stats.

Or find out which software package is most used in your field and look for a course on that.