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BIOL2022 Module 1 (Clarissa)

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L01 Why Statistics? Organisms are variable in a variable world; L02 Considerations of sampling; L03 Design - BEING REPRESENTATIVE; L04 Design - PROCEDURAL CONTROLS and REPLICATION; L05 T-tests L06 ANOVA L07 3 Cardinal sins: Non-independence; Confounding; Pseudoreplication; L08 CONTINGENCY and chi-squared; L09 Contingency tests - INTERACTIONS

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Module 1, Lecture 1 SUMMARY: - Must make questions explicit, and state hypotheses and logical predictions - Correlative approach will tell you that a pattern exists, but (in most cases) only an experiment will tell you why - A simple framework can make life easier!
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Module 1, Lecture 2 By the end of this lecture you should understand: - Biology (marine, intertidal, terrestrial) is a question-based discipline - Correlative vs Experimental approach - Falsificationist approach - A LOGICAL FRAMEWORK
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Module 1, Lecture 3 By the end of this lecture you should understand: - The need for random but representative samples - In heterogeneous environments, stratification is important - That precision can be improved by stratification
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Module 1, Lecture 4 By the end of this lecture you should understand: - The need for proper controls in experiments o Effectively for everything you do! - The need for interspersion of treatments
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Module 1, Lecture 5 By the end of this lecture you should understand: - Carrying out a t-test - One- and two-tailed t-tests
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Module 1, Lecture 6 By the end of this lecture you should understand: - Why we need ANOVA - Entering data and running a 1-way ANOVA - Interpreting a 1-way ANOVA - Entering data and running a 2-way orthogonal ANOVA - Interpretation of one of those ^^
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Module 1, Lecture 7 By the end of this lecture you should understand: - Why independence is important - Lack of independence causes pseudoreplication - Lack of independence causes confounding - Independence is the single most important thing you can use to do good experiments (both manipulative and mensurative
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Module 1, Lecture 8 No lecture objectives, but title = "Counting things and ascribing relationships"
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