UNSW Handbook Course - Data Analysis for Life and Earth Sciences

Data Analysis for Life and Earth Sciences - BEES2041


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
	Contact: McMurtrie,Ross Edward
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 5
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Excluded: BIOS2041, SLSP2001, GEOG2101, MATH2801, MATH2829, MATH2831, MATH2839, MATH2841, MATH2859, MATH2899, MATH2901, MATH2931, ECON2241
	Offered: Semester 1 2005
	Fee Band: 2

Description

Development of skills in applying statistics to biological, earth and spatial data. Design and analysis of experiments in life and earth sciences. Sampling strategies for estimating sample size. Analysis of community and environment structure using multivariate statistics. Simulation modelling in population biology, and statistical fitting of non-linear models to population growth data. Correlation and both simple and multiple regression. Improving statistical models using analysis of residuals. Analysis of spatial data. Examples will be drawn from ecological, geographical, earth, behavioural, genetic, microbial and immunological data. Practical work emphasises problem-solving and hands-on experience with EXCEL, MINITAB and other specialist software.

Assumed Knowledge: MATH1041

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