ENTOM 6060

ENTOM 6060

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

In this course, you will get hands-on experience in how to design, analyze, and interpret biological experiments. This course will be particularly useful if you plan to conduct experiments in a greenhouse or field setting. You will learn to develop a scientific question, formulate biological and statistical hypotheses, derive testable predictions, design and conduct experiments, collect your own data, test the proposed hypotheses using appropriate statistical methods, interpret the statistical results within a broader conceptual framework, and finally present statistical methods and results in written and oral form. You will learn common statistical methods (chi-square tests, t-test, ANOVA, Regression) and in-class workshops will familiarize you with the software to run those statistical tests. This course will be based on the scientific method, and the role statistical analysis play within this method. Writing several papers, based on the experiments you performed and analyzed, will allow you to cement this knowledge for your future research.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: introductory class in statistics.

Outcomes
  • Design and plan experiments based on scientific hypotheses.
  • Construct a scientific question, formulate biological and statistical hypothesis, derive testable predictions, use a rigorous experimental design, and test the proposed hypotheses.
  • Learn when and how to use different experimental designs such as paired designs, randomized blocks, latin squares, factorial-, split plot- and nested- designs among other.
  • Apply the theory behind statistical analysis such as chi-square test, t-test, ANOVA, Regression, ANCOVA, nested analysis and split-plots.
  • Master running the above described analyses in R.
  • Analyze and interpret the outcome from their own data and showing a real understanding of the statistical methods.
  • Interpret statistical results and make inferences on their biological hypotheses and original question.
  • Effectively communicate in written and oral form statistical results in a biological context.
  • Write papers that reflect the full understanding of the scientific method from initial question to conclusion with emphasis on experimental design, statistical methods and results.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: ENTOM 3030

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2481 ENTOM 6060   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  2503 ENTOM 6060   LAB 401

  • Instruction Mode: In Person