The information on this page has been abstracted from the course book and may not include all relevant information about procedures, assessment, etc. You should consult the course book to ensure that you have all necessary information. A half-course than runs over most of the year. Biometrics 2h is intended to give a student, with interests in any area of biology, an introduction to statistical ideas and methods in the context of a variety of biological applicatons. No prior knowledge of probability or statistics is assumed.
Mathematical content is kept to a minimum.
Students learn to use the computing laboratory to analyse data and write reports using the statistical methods described in lectures. It is not intended to be a complete and self-contained course in statistics. More specialized statistical methods may be taught in some Honours courses. Examples, drawn from different areas of biology, to show some applications of statistics. Using summary statistics and diagrams to explore differences between several sets of observations.