Statistical tests and modelling

Duration

22h Th, 10h Pr, 4h Mon. WS

Number of credits

Lecturer

Frédéric Farnir

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course deepens the biostatistics notions. It is focused on hyptheses tests (means comparisons, followed by analyses of variance, regression and correlation analyses). The last section of the course discusses the analysis of binary outcomes using logistic regression.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The main objectives of the course are:

• to make the students familiar to the use of computers softwares.
• to explain the statistical reasoning.
• to introduce the notion of statistical hypothesis testing, and to provide numerous examples in biology.
• to list a series of useful techniques, especially the ones mainly used in experiments likely to be made by veterinarians.
• to allow the students to use the theory on practical examples extracted from the veterinary life.
• to open the view of the students for the situations not covered in the course.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Basics in mathematics and statistics (the requested level is the level of VETE0432-4 course)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

• 14 hours of computer sessions on biostatistics (7*2 hours) using excel and R

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

2 hours lectures are generally given every week (see the schedule for more details). The course will be given during the second quadrimester.
Practical sessions will be planned on a 2 hours by session basis. The schedule will be distributed to the students.

Recommended or required readings

Biostatistics book sold at the Editions of ULg

Math exercises book sold at the Editions de l'ULg

Slides of the lectures available on the web site

Assessment methods and criteria

The evaluations take place in January and, if needed, in September.
The final grade is a mean over:

• an evaluation of the biostatistics skills based on computerized MCQ (stat exam)
• an evaluation of computer applied to biostatistics skills based on a problem solving approach using statistical software (excel, R) (hands-on exam).

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Prof. F. Farnir E-mail : F.Farnir@ulg.ac.be

Tél : 04/366 41 28, Fax : 04/366 41 22
Secretary : 04/366 41 50, Fax : 04/366 41 22

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