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:

An introduction to a variety of statistical procedures which are frequently used in the biological sciences. Populations and samples, types of data, graphing techniques, diversity indices, distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, comparison of means, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA (randomised block design and interaction effects), post-hoc testing, data assumptions (normality and homogeneity of variance) and associated testing, data transformation, dependent and independent t-tests, simple linear regression and correlation, and non-parametric procedures (Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis, Spearman rank Correlation, Chi-square and contingency tables). Experimental design. Data analysis using the statistical package SPSS v 15.

** 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