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Data Analysis for Life and Earth Sciences - BEES2041
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Exclusion: MATH2099 & PSYC2001
 
 
Excluded: BIOS2041, CVEN2002, CVEN2025, CVEN2702, ECON2215, MATH2049, MATH2089, MATH2801, MATH2829, MATH2839, MATH2841, MATH2859, MATH2899, MATH2901, MINE2700
 
 
Fee Band: 5 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

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

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