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Course Info for NESC - 220 - 01, Spring 2025
Class number: 2975 Title: Statistic for Life Sciences Department: Neuroscience
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 19 Current enrollment: 18 Available seats: 1
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 8:00AM-9:15AM, CCAN - 121 Instructor(s): Swart, Gayna
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Numerical & Symbolic Reasoning Requirement
Course Description:
This course is geared towards neuroscience students and emphasizes interactive, hands-on research projects, using simple experimental design, data collection and analysis, and presentation of results. Descriptive statistical methods are reviewed, including measures of central tendency, variance and graphical presentation and calculated using student-collected data. Elementary probability and inferential statistics are reviewed (estimation, hypothesis testing, sample size, power) and calculated using SPSS. Research projects will be presented.
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