17/01/2023
Today
- First half, introduction to the course
- Questions about course, stats from last year etc.
BS2004: Contemporary Techniques in Biological Data Analysis
- The What: Do I not know all the stats?
- The How: Flipped teaching
- The When: Structure of the course
The What: Do I not know all the stats?
- Week 1 Introductions: Chapter 1-2 Eamonn
- Week 2 Introduction to GLMs Ch. 3-4 Eamonn
- Week 3 Experimental design Ch. 5 Swidi week 28
- Week 4 Combining cont. and cat. Ch. 6 Swidi 29
- Week 5 Interactions Ch. 7 Swidi 30
- Week 6 Checking models I Ch. 8 Eamonn
- Week 7 Checking models II Ch. 9 Eamonn
- Week 8 Model selection Ch. 10 Christopher week 33
- Week 9 Generalized linear models Eamonn
- Week 10 Logistic regression Christopher week 35
- Week 11 Mixed effects models Eamonn
The How: Flipped teaching

Flipped teaching
The When: Structure of the course
- 11 weeks
- Each week consists of
- Pre session reading (Asynchronous) (Suggestion Week 0: Thursday)
- Online recorded slides (Asynchronous) (Suggestion Week 0: Friday)
- Tutor led review session (Synchronous) 50 minutes (Week 1: Tuesday)
- Computer practical (Asynchronous) Summative MCQ (worth 50% in total) (Suggestion Week 1: Monday start)
- Blackboard discussion (Asynchronous)
- Drop in session for computer practicals (Synchronous) upto 50 minutes (Week 1: Thursday)
- Submit MCQs (Week 2: Monday 8 a.m.)
- Complete example write up for each computer session (Asynchronous)
- Write up of a complete analysis (worth 50%)