BB817: Planning and evaluation of biological experiments (5 ECTS)

STADS: 04005601

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.
1st quarter

Teacher responsible
Email: hcpetersen@stat.sdu.dk

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Comment:
Samlæses med BB206

Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
The content of the course ST501 Science statistics or ST503 Statistics for Biologists is assumed to be known.

Course introduction
The students will learn to formulate biological questions in order to design, analyse, interpret, and present their own experimental investigations and field studies. Furthermore, they will learn to perform critical evaluations of research papers from the international scientific literature. Examples of studies, reflecting the complexity in the biological disciplines will be presented. The students will learn to use a statistical software for analysis of general linear models.

Expected learning outcome
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to:

• sum up questions in biological disciplines, e.g. ecology, physiology, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology, in order to formulate testable biological hypotheses
• design relevant laboratory or field studies in order to test the proposed hypotheses, including the use of statistical power calculations
• handle, analyse, and interpret data from experimental investigations, including statistical analyses of general linear models, such as factorial ANOVA, multiple regression, and ANCOVA
• present results from experimental investigations correctly, according to the data types specific to the individual biological disciplines
• critically evaluate and discuss international scientific publications

Subject overview
The necessity of quantitative evaluation of results from biological experiments. Types of biological data and sources of variability in experimental biology. Design of experimental biological studies. Handling of raw data, statistical analysis, and interpretation and presentation of results.

Literature
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Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
(a) Mandatory written assignment graded passed/failed. Internal censorship by the teacher.
(b) Written project followed by oral exam. Project and oral exam are evaluated together and graded according to the 7-grade scale. Internal censorship.
Active participation in seminars and passed written assignment are conditions for participation in the exam.

Re-exam after2nd quarter. The re-exam can have a different form than the ordinary exam.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.

Forelæsninger: 20 timer
Eksaminatorietimer/øvelser: 30 timer

Eksaminatorier består bl.a. i præsentationer ved de studerende.
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Language
This course is taught in English, if international students participate. Otherwise the course is taught in Danish.

Remarks
This course is a constituent subject in the Master's programme in Applied Mathematics in the field of Mathematics and Statistics.

Course enrollment
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