8306 (v.9) Quantitative Biology 201

Area:

Department of Environmental Biology

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

3 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

    10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
    OR
    305639 (v.1) Mathematics 135 or any previous version
    OR
    12165 (v.2) Mathematics 133 or any previous version

Syllabus:

Types of data. Sampling, Graphing techniques. Diversity indices (Weaver and Sorenson) procedures. Comparing means. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Scheffe tests. MINITAB introduction. Fisher's testing. MINITAB one-way and two-way ANOVA, randomised block design and application. ANOVA assumptions and Levene test for variance equality. Two-way ANOVA with replication and interaction summaries. T-test dependent samples (repeated measures) and t-test independent. Chi-square introduction and contingency tables. Regression, correlation and Mann-Whitney U test. Spearman Rank Correlation (non parametric). Kruskal Wallis. Kendall's coefficient of concordance. Transformation of data.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

010103 Statistics

Funding Cluster:

04 - Mathematics, Statistics

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External