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General information

 

Course unit name: Statistical Analysis and Presentation of Results I

Course unit code: 568583

Academic year: 2021-2022

Coordinator: Georgios Athanasiadis

Department: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Credits: 2,5

Single program: S

 

 

Estimated learning time

Total number of hours 62.5

 

Face-to-face and/or online activities

24
 

-  IT-based class

Face-to-face

  

16
 

-  Seminar

Face-to-face

  

8

Supervised project

16

Independent learning

22.5

 

 

Learning objectives

 

Referring to knowledge

— Create, organise, manage and make use of databases.

— Identify and analyse types of variable used in human biology studies.

— Describe or summarise data to create accessible data insights (descriptive analysis).

— Infer causal relationships between independent and dependent variables and generalise the results of analyses (univariate inferential analysis).

— Manage specialist bibliographies.

— Identify the most important quality indicators in current scientific research.

— Write an academic paper in English and defend it orally.

 

 

Teaching blocks

 

1. Database design and management

1.1. Effective database design

1.2. Sampling

1.3. Analysis of variability and types of variable

1.4. Creation of new variables on the basis of existing ones

1.5. Error detection

1.6. Graphic representation

2. Univariate analysis

2.1. Quantitative data

2.2. Qualitative data

2.3. Normality tests: parametric and nonparametric tests

3. Bibliography management and quality indicators in research

4. Writing scientific articles and academic papers