Experimental Design and Biostatistics

Introductory course in designing, analyzing, and interpreting biological experiments. This course is structured to develop students understanding of when to apply different quantitative methods, how to implement those methods using statistical software, and how to effectively communicate the analyses. Topics include summary statistics, distributions, randomization, replication, parametric and nonparametric tests. Additional topics may include multivariate methods, randomization tests, and Bayesian statistics.