Scope: This is a refresher course aimed at PhD candidates. The level is that of a second course in Statistics. We will refresh basic knowledge of Probability, Statistical Inference (Estimation with confidence intervals and Testing), t-tests, standard cases of the Linear Model: Regression, ANOVA and ANCOVA. For our analyses we use software written in R. Programs will be provided.
Other topics: Experimental Design, Non-parametric Tests, and Chi-square Tests. Some time is reserved to discuss statistical problems of the participants.
- Target group: The course is aimed at PhD candidates, postdocs, and other academics that want to gain or refresh knowledge of basis statistics, primarily using R.
- Prior knowledge: No prior knowledge is assumed
- Course duration: 5 days
- Contact: PE&RC Office: office.pe@wur.nl
- Registration of interest: You can register your interest HERE (note: this is not an official registration).
| Day 1 | Getting acquainted with R, descriptive statistics, probability calculus, sampling distributions, confidence interval for population mean, one-sample t-test |
| Day 2 | 2-independent-samples + paired t-test, one-way ANOVA, non-parametric tests |
| Day 3 | Experimental design, power, sample size, two-way ANOVA, simple linear regression |
| Day 4 | Simple linear regression, multiple linear regression |
| Day 5 | ANCOVA and General Linear Models |
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