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BIOLOGY 3120 - Research Design & Analysis

 

 

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Instructor:  Dr. R. Brandon Pratt

Syllabus

Proposal Guidelines

How to write a paper

Textbooks

1. Hinds, D. S., Germano, D. J., Pratt, R. B. and Kolb, K. J. Research Design and Analysis. 2015. Unpublished Manual.
2. Hofmann, A.H. 2014. Scientific Writing and Communication: Papers, Proposals, and Presentations. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, New York, 728p.


Lecture Schedule

Date

Day

Topics and Assignments

Text Readings (italics = Hofmann book)

8-26

M

Asking Questions in Biology; Displaying Data

Ch 1; Ch1 Banard et al.

8/28

W

Descriptive Statistics

Ch 3

9/2

M

Labor Day

 

9/4

W

Basics of Experimental Design

Ch 2

9/9

M

Probability and Statistics

Ch 4

9/11

W

Writing

Ch 1-6

9/16

M

Hypothesis Testing & Confidence Intervals

Ch 6

9/18

W

Assumptions of Parametric Statistics/ Writing

Ch 5/ Ch. 19-26

9/23

M

T-test/ Non-parametric two sample/ Proposals Due

Ch 7, 8

9/25

W

Exam 1

 

9/30

M

ANOVA

Ch 8

10/2

W

ANOVA & Non-parametric Alternatives

Ch 9

10/7

M

ANOVA: Post-Hoc Testing

Ch 10

10/9

W

Writing

Ch. 19-26

10/14

M

Two-way ANOVA

Ch 13

10/16

W

Advanced ANOVA Designs

 

10/21

M

Displaying complex data

 

10/23

W

Writing

Ch. 19-26

10/28

M

Writing

Ch. 19-26

10/30

W

Exam 2

 

11/4

M

Correlation & Regression

Ch 12

11/6

W

Correlation & Regression

Ch 12

11/11

M

Veteran�s Day

 

11/13

W

ANCOVA

Ch 14

11/18

M

Chi-Square

Ch 11

11/20

W

Writing - Introductions

Ch 10

11/25

M

Writing/ Introduction Due

Ch 10-17

11/27

W

Writing

Ch 10-17

12/2

M

Posters

Ch. 28

12/4

W

Writing

Ch 10-17

12/9

M

Review/ Final Papers Due

 

12/16

M

Final Exam (2-4:30)

 

 
Laboratory Schedule

Date

Day

Week

Topics and Assignments

Readings

 

8-27

T

1

Displaying Data/ Observing Nature

Ch 1

 

9-3

T

2

Spreadsheets/ Descriptive Statistics

Ch 3

 

9-10

T

3

Working with Distributions/ Normality and Constant Variance

Ch 4 & 5

 

9-17

T

4

Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals/ R�sum�s

Ch 6, Ch 30

 

9-24

T

5

T-tests & Mann-Whitney Tests

Ch 7 & 8

 

10-1

T

6

ANOVA

Ch 8 & 9

 

10-8

T

7

ANOVA - Kruskal Wallis & Post-Hoc Testing

Ch 8, 9, & 10

Hmwrk

10-15

T

8

Two-way ANOVA

Ch 13

Hmwrk

10-22

T

9

Displaying complex data

 

 

10-29

T

10

Projects

 

 

11-5

T

11

Correlation & Regression

Ch 12

 

11-12

T

12

Projects

 

 

11-19

T

13

Chi-Square

Ch 11

 

11-26

T

14

Projects

 

 

12-3

T

15

Papers

 

 

12-10

T

16

Poster Presentation Due & Displayed on 2nd Floor in Science 1

 

 

 

Templates for Excel statistical analyses:
Descriptive stats & t-test: Download
A range of tests: Download
Excel ANOVA template: Download
Excel Regression: Download
Chisqr: Download 1 Download 2 Download 3
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