Has your research or personal exploration sparked an idea you're eager to pursue but feel overwhelmed on where to start and how to go about it? Well, look no further as this course combines the technical fortitudes surrounding startups, specifically in the field of medical sciences. In addition to this, students will learn about the necessary soft skills of many successful founders. This 0.25 FCE course is primarily for students in a MSc or PhD program that would like to gain insight about startups. Topics discussed in the course include startup structure, value proposition, market and industry analyses, business planning, funding, and regulatory hurdles.

Categorical data is a type of qualitative data that involves grouping observations into categories instead of measuring them numerically. It is a common form of data found in many branches of science, so the ability to work effectively with categorical data is an important skill for researchers to possess. This course will provide students with the knowledge and skills to perform and interpret categorical data analysis involving contingency tables and logistic regression models. The statistical software package R with the R Studio interface will be used. Both descriptive and inferential statistical methods will be covered.