1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MATH 1730 or higher and two upper biology courses with grades of “C” or higher; Corequisite: BIOL 4100;Description: Laboratory Component focusing on statistical methods in biological research. Basic descriptive and inferential statistics, frequency distributions and analyses, analysis of variance, linear regression, correlation, nonparametric analogues to parametric methods, relationships between experimental design and data analysis used in hypothesis testing. Selected multivariate analysis, statistical re-sampling methods, and data reduction techniques discussed. Computer use emphasized.