Handbook - Data Analysis for Life and Earth Sciences

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Overview

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

Conditions for Enrolment

Exclusion: MATH2099 & PSYC2001

Exclusion Courses

MATH2089 - Numerical Methods and Statistics

Course

MATH2099

MATH2099 - Mathematics 2B

Course

MATH2859

MATH2859 - Probability, Statistics and Information

Course

MATH2901

MATH2901 - Higher Theory of Statistics

Delivery

In-person - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)

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Course Outline

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BEES2041 Course Outline

Fees

Type	Amount
Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable)	$499
Domestic Students	$6090
International Students	$6090

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