Announcement of VHM 8010 Veterinary Biostatistics (e-mail 31/7-2020)

Announcement of the Biostats 801 course

Please find below an outline of the Veterinary Biostatistics course 
VHM-8010-1 for the Fall Semester 2020.

To (informally) register for the course, send an e-mail with name and 
affiliation to hstryhn@upei.ca (Henrik Stryhn, Dept. Health Management). 
Formal registration at the Registrar's Office takes place through the 
myUPEI portal. Early registration is encouraged because the number of 
seats in the course is limited. 

For further information, contact the course lecturer, or consult the 
course homepage (at the bottom of this message) with the most recent 
and detailed information, including a full (tentative) course schedule.

AVC graduate students may qualify for a waiver of the requirement in the 
Academic Regulations to take the course (unless comparable training has 
been completed prior to entry into the program); for further
information, contact the course lecturer.

Henrik Stryhn,
Department of Health Management, AVC

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Biostats VHM 801 course - Fall Semester 2020

Time:  September 3 - December 7
- lectures: Thursdays mornings (asynchronous video lectures); 
            start Thursday 3/9
- labs: mostly Mondays 1-3pm (some Fridays 1-3pm) in the large computer lab (AVC 218S), 
        as well as streamed online (part); start Friday 4/9, 1-3pm
- lab reviews: Tuesdays 1-3pm (synchronously streamed); 
               start Tuesday 15/9, 1-3pm
- final take-home exam (tentative date): Monday 14/12

Textbook:  several textbook choices exist, see course homepage;
contact the instructor if you need additional information

Course contents (keywords):
- Data and Descriptive statistics
- Normal distribution
- Sampling and Design of studies (incl. experiments)
- Probability and Random variables
- Binomial distribution
- Statistical inference: estimation, confidence intervals and tests
- Analysis of one and two continuous samples (t-tests)
- Analysis of one and two discrete samples
- Two-way tables
- One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)
- Simple linear regression and correlation
- Multifactorial analysis (multiple regression, two-way ANOVA)
- Nonparametric methods
- Sample size calculations
- Reporting of statistical analysis in papers

Examination:  final take-home exam, home assignments, online quizzes

Prerequisites:
- elementary mathematical calculus
- elementary computer applications

Lecturer:  Henrik Stryhn, Department of Health Management
- e-mail: hstryhn@upei.ca, phone 894-2847, room 412S

Course homepage:  http://people.upei.ca/hstryhn/vhm801