BIOL 483 - MULTIVARIATE METH/BIOL

Institution:

Western Kentucky University

Subject:

Biology

Description:

Prerequisites: Junior standing and a course in statistics, or permission of instructor. Application of multivariate statistical analysis techniques to problems in the biological sciences. Principal component and factor analysis, canonical discriminant analysis, correspondence analysis, distance metrics and clustering, canonical correlation, repetitive sampling, randomization. Not a course in mathematical statistics; rather, emphasis is on experimental design, selection of appropriate methods for testing a particular hypothesis, and the analysis of real data. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wku.edu

Phone Number:

(270) 745-0111

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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