91110 Experimental Design and Sampling

6cp
Requisite(s): 33109 Statistics for Environmental Biologists OR 33116c Statistical Design and Analysis

Topics covered in this subject include: the principles and practice of scientific experimentation, with particular emphasis on biology; the essential steps in experimental design and analysis, and their roles; the source of experimental variability and the ways of effectively dealing with them; environmental sampling procedures and designs; the logic of experimental and statistical hypothesis testing; the practical uses and limitations of statistical tests in biology; and techniques for analysing multivariate data, with emphasis on the pattern-analysis methods of ordination and clustering.

Fee information

2006 contribution for 2005/06 commencing Commonwealth-supported undergraduate students: $872.38
2006 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,190.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.125
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