Biology 314: Introduction to research design, Fall 2024


Arndt F. Laemmerzahl, instructor

alaemmer@gmu.edu


Contact information, office hours, etc. can be found here.



NOTICES:

The text from BIOL 214:

Statistics, Biology, and R
(Updated January 9, 2024)

(Username: Biostat11, Password: Gecko3, both are case sensitive).


Lecture notes:

Any lecture notes not already posted will be posted no later than the night before the relevant lecture (it might be late the night before).

Notes are provided in pdf and are organized by topic. We will follow the topics in order.


Lecture topic: PDF Comments
 
Introduction/course policies/syllabus pdf Syllabus is tentative
Statistics and their use pdf  
Data organization and notation pdf  
Distributions pdf  
Distributions and hypothesis tests pdf  
One sided tests and assumptions pdf  
Two sample tests (part I) pdf  
Two sample tests (part II) pdf  
Paired tests pdf  
One way ANOVA pdf  
Kruskal-Wallis pdf  
Two way ANOVA pdf  
Blocking in ANOVA pdf  
 
Optional material (varies depending on semester): Covered in fall of 2024?
          Correlation     pdf Yes
          Regression     pdf Yes
          Multiple regression     pdf Yes
          Survival analysis     pdf Yes
          Multivariate ANOVA     pdf Yes
          PCA     pdf Yes
          Logistic regression     pdf ?
          Contingency tables (incl. Fisher's exact test)     pdf ?
          Permutation tests     pdf ?       (R-code as presented in class is here).
          Nested ANOVA     pdf ?
          Clustering analysis     pdf ?       (R-code as presented in class is here).
          Misc. statistical techniques     pdf ?
          Circular statistics     pdf ?
          Power analysis     pdf ?
          Outlier detection     pdf ?
 
Ethics pdf Probably not covered in fall of 2024.




Questions? Please contact me at: alaemmer@gmu.edu