Data Analysis for Life and Earth Sciences - BEES2041


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
	Contact: McMurtrie,Ross Edward
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 5
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Excluded: BIOS2041, SLSP2001, GEOG2101, MATH2801, MATH2829, MATH2831, MATH2839, MATH2841, MATH2859, MATH2899, MATH2901, MATH2931, ECON2241
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)

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 are 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