Duration
42h Th, 10h Pr, 16h Mon. WS
Number of credits
| Bachelor in veterinary medicine | 7 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course integrates some computer basics (use of a spreadsheet and of a statistical software), a mathematics refresher (basic functions, trigonometry, derivatives and simple integrals) and an introduction to biostatistics. The latter includes an introduction to random variables and probabilities. Then the course turns to descriptive statistics and to probability distributions, before starting a general description of hypotheses testing (illustrated on frequencies comparisons tests).
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 refresh the basics in mathematics and calculus.
- 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
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- 10 hours of math exercises (5*2 hours)
- 6 hours of biostatistics exercises (3*2 hours)
- 10 hours of computer sessions on biostatistics (5*2 hours) using excel and R
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
2 hours lectures are given every week (except in the first weeks where more lectures might take place). The course will be given all year long.
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 final grade will be a mean over:
- an evaluation taking place at the end of the math practical sessions
- an evaluation of the biostatistics skills
- an evaluation of the practical sessions know-how.
The final mark wil be computed as follows:
- if at least one of the 3 marks (math, stats, practical) is below 8/20, the final mark will be the minimal mark in the 3,
- if the 3 marks are above or equal to 8/20, the final mark will be the weighted average of the 3 marks, with weights equal to 0.25, 0.50 and 0.25 for math, stats and practicals, respectively.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
For the theoretical sessions, all students are expected to attend the courses.
For the supervised work, students are split into 2 groups, and the same session is repeated for each group (so, 2 times).
For the practical sessions, students are split into 6 groups, and the same session is repeated for each group (so, 6 times).
The group allocation is managed by the faculty administration staff, and will be communicated to the students in due time.
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
Items online
Course website
This site contains all materail supporting the course (slides, exercises, corrected exams, ...) along with other tools such as an interactive multiple choice generator.