ZOO/ADA Data Analysis

Lecturers: Karel Weidinger, Vladimír Remeš
Lecture: 1 hour/week + exercise 1 hour/week
Credits: 5
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.