| Responsible Department | LIFE Graduate School
10 % Department of Basic Science and Environment 90 % | ||||||||||
| Course Dates | 4, (5), 11, and 18 January 2012. We expect the course will run next time in January 2013. | ||||||||||
| Course Abstract | This course enables the student to identify basic statistical problems in the biosciences and to carry out the appropriate statistical analysis. The student gets hands-on experience in using a statistical package, which is mandatory when doing practical statistical analyses. | ||||||||||
| Course Home Page | http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~torbenm/SmB/SmB/Welcome.ht... | ||||||||||
| Course Registration | To sign up for the course, please send an e-mail to Lars Holm Rasmussen at SmB_I_and_II@life.ku.dk . | ||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | 1 December 2011. | ||||||||||
| Credits | 3 (ECTS) | ||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Frederiksberg Campus | ||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||
| Restrictions | 60 | ||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||
| The student is introduced to the basic statistical techniques applied to biological examples. Topics covered are: Descriptive statistics, data types, elementary probability concepts, statistical distributions, comparison of two samples by parametric and nonparametric methods, t-tests, paired observations, basic design of experiments, basic analysis of frequency data, linear and multiple linear regression and analysis of variance. The statistical package Stata is used for analysis of real applications from the biosciences. | |||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||
| Lectures, seminars, exercises including use of computers. The typical arrangement is lectures for the first half of the day and individual coursework with exercises the second half. Participants must bring labtops with STATA 12 installed. | |||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||
| This course enables the student to identify basic statistical problems in the biosciences and to carry out the appropriate statistical analysis. The student gets hands-on experience in using a statistical package, which is mandatory when doing practical statistical analyses. | |||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||
| 'A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata, 4th Edition', by Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Brian Everitt. Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC. | |||||||||||
| Course Material | |||||||||||
| The participants will receive a 6-month version of Small STATA 12 for free. Participants will receive the software in first part of December and must familiarize themselves with the program prior to the course. | |||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||
| Lars Holm Rasmussen, lhr@life.ku.dk, Study and Students Affairs, Phone: 353-32659 Torben Martinussen, tma@life.ku.dk, Department of Basic Sciences and Environment, Phone: 353-32600 | |||||||||||
| Other Lecturers | |||||||||||
| Teaching assistant: Signe Marie Jensen | |||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||
| Free for PhD students from UCPH-LIFE. Other UCPH: Contact the secretariat. PhD students from Open Market partners (incl. NOVA): DKK 5.000 plus VAT. Others: DKK 6.000 plus VAT. | |||||||||||
| Course Costs | |||||||||||
| None | |||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||
| Active participation. | |||||||||||
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