Duration
22h Th, 10h Pr, 6h Mon. WS
Number of credits
| Bachelor in veterinary medicine | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course deepens the biostatistics notions. It is focused on hyptheses tests (means comparisons, followed by analyses of variance, regression and correlation analyses). The last section of the course discusses non parametric tests to be used in situations of non-normality.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The main objectives of the course are:
- to make the students familiar to the use of computers softwares.
- to explain the statistical reasoning.
- to introduce the notion of statistical hypothesis testing, and to provide numerous examples in biology.
- to list a series of useful techniques, especially the ones mainly used in experiments likely to be made by veterinarians.
- to allow the students to use the theory on practical examples extracted from the veterinary life.
- to open the view of the students for the situations not covered in the course.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Basics in mathematics and statistics (the requested level is the level of VETE0432-4 course)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- 22 hours of lectures (11*2 hours)
- 10 hours of computer sessions on biostatistics (7*2 hours) using excel and R
- 6 hours of problems solving sessions (3*2 hours).
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
2 hours lectures are given, usually twice every week (see the schedule for more details). The course will be given during the first quadrimester. Podcasts will be created when possible and made available to the students.
Practical sessions will be planned on a 2 hours by session basis. The schedule will be distributed to the students during the first quadrimester.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Biostatistics book sold at the Editions of ULg
Slides of the lectures available on the web site
Podcasts will be made available (when possible) on the unicast platform of ULiege
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Additional information:
The evaluations take place in January and, if needed, in September.
The final grade is a mean over:
- an evaluation of the biostatistics skills based on computerized MCQ (stat exam)
- an evaluation of computer applied to biostatistics skills based on a problem solving approach using statistical software (excel, R) (hands-on exam).
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Prof. F. Farnir
E-mail : F.Farnir@uliege.be
Tél : 04/366 41 28, Fax : 04/366 41 22
Dr. A. Rives
E-mail: Albane.Rives@uliege.be
Secretary : 04/366 41 50, Fax : 04/366 41 22
Association of one or more MOOCs
Items online
Website of the course
The website provides all the needed information for the course. This includes a copy of the course slides, the information for the various practical and hands-on sessions, a correction of several exams from the previous academic years, a tool to build interactively multiple choices questions on the various chapters of the course, and other useful tools.