Biostatistics [ LVETE1262 ]
9.0 crédits ECTS
45.0 h + 45.0 h
2q
| Teacher(s) |
Legrand Catherine ;
Van Keilegom Ingrid ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| Main themes |
- Introduction to probability ; discrete (binomiale, multinomial and Poisson) and continuous (normal, chi-square, Student and Fisher-Snedecor) distributions. - Descriptive statistics (measures of location and dispersion, empirical distribution, histograms, graphs, dependence measures and their graphical representations) - Introduction to statistical inference: point estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests ; application to the comparison of means and variances. - ANOVA I and ANOVA II models. - Linear models : linear and multiple regression. - Simple, partial and multiple correlations. - Inference methods for discrete data and contigency tables. - Introduction to the planning of experiments.
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| Aims |
The goal of that course is to introduce students in veterinary science to the rational use of statistical methods for the analysis of data in their discipline.
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| Other information |
Prerequisites: Basic courses in mathematics (PHY1114 - PHY1115 or equivalent). Evaluation : the evaluation includes a theoretical part and a practical part as well as project. An introduction to a data analysis software will be proposed during the practicals.
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Bachelor in Veterinary Medicine
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> VETE
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