Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS

Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course addresses methods to set up biological experiments that maximize the ability to draw meaningful conclusions. Designed (factorial, nested, split plot, repeated measures) and undesigned experiments (regression, correlation) will be considered, as well as analysis and interpretation of the data. Actual data sets from several areas of biology will be used for homework, demos, and projects. The student should have some previous exposure to statistics.