With Dr. Angelo Valleriani
w/c 25.11.2024 (3 full days, exact not confirmed)
Conditions: 400 € per participant
Description:
This course will cover a broad range of standard statistical analysis methods and tools. It is the perfect balance between theoretical background information and examples. It covers topics such as: Histograms, Descriptive statistics, Boxplots, Probability Plots, Confidence intervals for means and proportions, Confidence intervals for quantiles, z-tests and t-tests for means and proportions, Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney tests, Power analysis, Simple Linear Regression, Goodness of fit test, Homogeneity tests, Contingency tables, one-way ANOVA, Bootstrapping methods for means. Complemented with many examples from biology, medicine and environmental science, It is suited for PhD students in biology, aiming at improving their skills and knowledge in statistics. Interested participants will have also the chance to download the datasets used in the examples and perform their own analysis. People with a Python knowledge can also download the Jupyter notebooks used to compute the analysis in the examples. Participants in this course will receive the complete set of lecture notes to be used as starting point for applications or further studies. A final certificate of participation will be given to every participant.
Further Information
Registration:
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