BIO 341. Biostatistics. 3 Hours.
Application of statistical procedures to analyze data related to the biological sciences. The course builds upon topics introduced in BIO 150 and BIO 216. Topics include describing and displaying data, descriptive statistics, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, categorical data analysis, t-tests, ANOVA, and linear regression analysis. Students will conduct statistical analysis using multiple statistical software packages, such as JMP and R, to analyze data from studies in ecology, evolutionary biology, medicine and genetics and then interpret the results.
Prerequisite: BIO 213 with a minimum grade of D or ENVS 203 with a minimum grade of D.