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Palacký University

ZOO/AD Data Analysis

Lecturers: Karel Weidinger, Vladimír Remeš
Lecture: 1 hour/week + exercise 1 hour/week
Credits: 3
Winter semester
Form of course completion: exam

Practical application of modern methods of data collection, analysis and presentation.
Observation vs experiment, correlation vs causality, exploratory vs confirmatory methods.
Biological vs statistical significance, effect size vs significance.
Design of experiments, replication vs pseudoreplication.
General/generalized linear models, types of response and explanatory variables, fixed vs random effects.
Significance testing vs model selection.
Visualization and presentation of results.

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Last update: 04. 11. 2016, Jitka Mayerová