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.
| 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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| 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 |
| Group Size | Max. 24 participants |
| Course duration | 5 days |
| Prior knowledge | No prior knowledge is assumed |
| Lecturers | Dr. Evert Jan Bakker (Biometris, Wageningen University) |
| FEE1 | |
| PE&RC/WIMEK/WASS/EPS/VLAG/WIAS PhD candidates with approved TSP and WU EngD candidates | €290,- |
| PE&RC postdocs and staff | €580,- |
| All other academic participants | €620,- |
| Non-academic participants | €1200,- |
1 The course fee includes a reader, coffee/tea, and lunches. It does not include accommodation .
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- Dr. Evert Jan Bakker (Lecturer)
Phone: +31 (0) 317 483887
Email: evert-jan.bakker@wur.nl
- PE&RC Office
Email: office.pe@wur.nl
