ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Description
Starting from scratch for analysing biological data: describing, testing and modelling simple experimental protocols;
Getting to know fundamental properties of linear models dealing with simple regressions and simple ANOVAs;
Incorporating into models the essence of biological data: co-linearity, dependence, spatial structure, laws that are not normal....
Representing data and results from models.
Objectives
Being able to build an experimental protocol or field observations that match a biological question;
Being able to build a model to analyse biological data with all their imperfections;
Being able to understand the protocols and models published in recent papers;
Being able to build a figure asnwering the biological questions with statistical tools.
Necessary pre-requisites
fearless about mathematical notations
any experience with R is a bonus
Knowledge control
Continuous assessment : 100%.
Additional information
Hourly volumes:
CM : 12 h
TD : 9 h
TP : 0 h
Field : 0 h
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SPS : 0 h
Seminars : 0 h
Outside UM : 0 h