Experimental designs and data processing

Duration

20h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Bruno Frederich, Alain Hambuckers, Alain Vanderpoorten

Coordinator

Alain Hambuckers

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course, mainly practicals with the analyses of real biological data, includes 8 half-days. Half of these practical sessions are devoted to the statistical analysis of experimental data related to experiments carried out within the framework of ethological or ecological studies. The second half of the course is dedicated to an introduction of phylogenetic comparative analyses. During this second part of the course, various phenotypic data will be explored.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

- Select and apply suitable statistical tests with datasets commonly produced in ethological and ecological studies ;
- Making aware students to take into account phylogenetic information when analyzing and comparing traits among species.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

To master the notions of the courses of basic and multivariate statistics

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Theoretical introduction + Tutorials carried out on the R calculation platform.
Some analyzes will also be carried out with specific softwares, free-access on the Web.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to face and mandatory

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

The courses and practical sessions will preferably be given face-to-face, respecting the directives of the academic authorities with regard to the health context.
According to the color of the code defining the status of the health crisis, a part or all the courses could be given remotely via the LifeSize platform (or others).

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions )

- Remote

written exam ( open-ended questions )

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person


Additional information:

The student will be asked to answer in writing to a series of biological questions requiring the use of the methods introduced during the classes, for the classical statistical methods as well as for the phylogenetic information. Each of these two evaluations represents 50% of the final score.
According to the colour of the code defining the status of the health crisis, the exam could proceed remotely through one of the institutional tools.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

It is easier to bring her/his own computer with R and R-Studio installed

Contacts

Alain HAMBUCKERS - alain.hambuckers@uliege.be - Tel. +3243665072 Institut de Zoologie (Bät I1), Quai Van Beneden 22, B-4020 Liège.
 
Bruno FREDERICH - bruno.frederich@uliege.be - Tél. +3243665040 Institut de Chimie (Bät B6c), Allée du six Août 11, B-4000 Liège.
 
Alain VANDERPOORTEN - A.Vanderpoorten@uliege.be - Tél. +3243663842 Institut de Botanique (B22), Chemin de la Vallée 4, B-4000 Liège.

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