BI3010: Statistical Analysis Of Biological Data

BI3010: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL DATA (2021-2022)

Last modified: 31 May 2022 13:05

Course Overview

You will utilise a robust approach to statistical analysis, a skill highly valued by employers and researchers.
Lectures provide context, background and step-by step guidance on how to conduct and interpret a selection of statistical analyses.
Through a series of exercises, you learn to explore data, to specify appropriate linear models for your research question and to interpret their results.
A set of online tests structured around the exercises and the lecture content allow you to demonstrate your achievement of course learning outcomes.
With a group of students, you complete tasks and strengthen your understanding of applications of statistics.

Course Details

Study Type	Undergraduate	Level	3
Term	First Term	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Professor M Pinard Dr Thomas Cornulier

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

One of BSc Biology or BSc Conservation Biology or BSc Zoology or BSc Animal Ecology or BSc Marine Biology or Bachelor Of Science In Animal Behaviour And Welfare or BSc Animal Behaviour or BSc Behavioural Biology or MSci Biological Sciences or BSc Biological Sciences (Honours) or BSc Plant and Soil Sciences or Bachelor Of Science In Environmental And Forest Management or BSc Ecology or BSc Forestry or BSc Forest Sciences or BSc Environmental Science
Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4
Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

BI3007 Experimental Design, Analysis and Presentation (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

This course aims to instil a robust approach to statistical analysis. By engaging with a series a lectures and podcasts, completing a set of exercises that progressively add more complexity, you will learn how:

to conduct data exploration and determine an appropriate approach to data analysis;
to analyse and interpret results from a range of analyses, and
to present the results from the analyses in an appropriate manner.

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

conduct data exploration and determine an appropriate approach to data analysis;
analyse, interpret and present results from a variety of linear modelling analyses;
explain the strengths and weaknesses of different sampling and survey designs;
characterise robust and reproducible research practices that relate to sampling, hypothesis testing
and statistical analysis;
interrogate and interpret aspects of statistical analysis and presentation of results by engaging effectively with peers in group-based activities.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 21st September 2026 for Term 1 and Full Year courses and 8th January 2027 for Term 2 courses.

Summative Assessments

Class Test

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	10
Assessment Weeks	8	Feedback Weeks	8	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	The test is implemented through MyAberdeen as an online assessment, feedback is embedded for both correct and incorrect answers; the feedback is released to students two days after the deadline.

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Class Test

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	25
Assessment Weeks	9	Feedback Weeks	9	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	The test is delivered online through MyAberdeen and feedback on correct and incorrect answers is embedded and released to students two days after completion of the test.

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Class Test

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	45
Assessment Weeks	12	Feedback Weeks	12	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	The test is delivered online through MyAberdeen and feedback on correct and incorrect answers is embedded, released two days after completion.

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Three group tasks

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	20
Assessment Weeks	11	Feedback Weeks	13	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback	Three group tasks, with total weightings 20%

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Procedural	Apply	to conduct data exploration and determine appropriate approach to data analysis
Conceptual	Analyse	to analyse and interpret results from a range of statistical analyses

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