BLG 409

This course will cover commonly used statistical analyses of biological data, working with data structures familiar and relevant to Biology majors. The course will focus on experimental design, training students to set up experiments with a priori consideration of statistical analysis. Specific topics will include probability, distribution analysis, measures of central tendency, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation analyses, multiple regression models, chi-square tests, t-tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, power analyses.