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BIOL 206 Methods in Biology

Instructors: Laura Pollock, Hans Carl Larsson, Brian Leung, Shaun Turney

Below is a list of supplemental texts used in this course. They are organized by statistical method. Many of the selections are from the textbook OpenIntro Statistics, 3rd edition.

Data Visualization

1.6. Examining numerical data (OpenIntro Statistics)
1.7. Considering categorical data (OpenIntro Statistics)
Visualize data with ggplot2 (Posit Cloud Primers)
The Fundamental Principles of Analytical Design (chapter 5 in Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte, available in print only)
Charts Are Like Pasta - Data Visualization Part 1 (CrashCourse, ~10min video)
Plots, Outliers, and Justin Timberlake: Data Visualization Part 2 (CrashCourse, ~11min video)

Samples and Populations

1.3.3. Sampling from a population (OpenIntro Statistics)
4.1. Variability in estimates (OpenIntro Statistics)
The Shape of Data: Distributions (CrashCourse, ~11min video)

Normal Distributions

3.1. Normal distribution (OpenIntro Statistics)
Z-Scores and Percentiles (CrashCourse, ~11min video)
The Normal Distribution (CrashCourse, ~11min video)

Introducing Hypothesis Testing with Z-tests

Basic concepts of hypothesis testing (Handbook of Biological Statistics)
4.2. Confidence intervals (OpenIntro Statistics)
Confidence Intervals (CrashCourse, ~13min video)
4.3. Hypothesis testing (OpenIntro Statistics)
How P-values Help Us Test Hypotheses (CrashCourse, ~12min video)
P-Value Problems (CrashCourse, ~12min video)
Why do we so often use 0.05 for hypothesis testing? (OpenIntro Supplementary)

T-tests

5.1. One-sample means with the t-distribution (OpenIntro Statistics)
5.3. Difference of two means (OpenIntro Statistics)
Student’s t-test for one sample (Handbook of Biological Statistics)
Student’s t-test for two samples (Handbook of Biological Statistics)
Test Statistics (CrashCourse, ~13 min video)

Simple Linear Regression

7. Introduction to linear regression (OpenIntro Statistics)
More inference for linear regression (OpenIntro Statistics Supplementary)
Correlation and linear regression (Handbook of Biological Statistics)
Correlation Doesn’t Always Equal Causation (CrashCourse, ~12min video)

ANOVA

5.5. Comparing many means with ANOVA (OpenIntro Statistics)
ANOVA Calculations (OpenIntro Statistics Supplementary)
One-way anova (Handbook of Biological Statistics)
ANOVA (CrashCourse, ~13min video)

General Linear Models

8.1. Introduction to multiple regression (OpenIntro Statistics)
Multiple regression (Handbook of Biological Statistics)
Regression (CrashCourse, ~13min video)

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