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| Types | Online and Distance Learning Professional Development Short Courses |
|---|---|
| Location | Online |
| Dates | Wed 31 Oct to Wed 5 Dec 2012 |
| Subject area(s) | Ecology Environmental Sciences |
| Fees | From £375.00 |
| Application status | Course ended |
| Course code | O12C072D2Y |
| Course contact | If you have any questions about this course, please email est@conted.ox.ac.uk. |
Overview
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Data Analysis in Ecology is a short, stand-alone training
course that is taught entirely online. It can be taken from
anywhere in the world and is relevant to an international
audience. It will appeal to a variety of students and
practitioners in conservation and management who want to
improve their ability to display ecological data, and to use
descriptive and inferential statistics to analyse their results
from field surveys. The course introduces students to the use
of the following software: QED statistics and R.
This course can be taken with academic credit (assignment of up to 2,000 words) or without academic credit. This page relates to taking the course WITHOUT CREDIT. For information about taking this course with academic credit, please click here.
Description
Each topic is covered via guided reading, online activities, and discussion forums. All the reading material is embedded into the course, but students additionally have access to the University's electronic resources and online journals, which they will need to use for some of the activities. Participants are expected to study on, and contribute to the course for 10-15 hours per week. Additionally, if the course is being taken for accreditation, participants will have to complete an assessment. There is a suggested calendar of activity that participants can use to assist them in completeing the course within the allocated five weeks.
Minimum IT Requirements
Please note that this course is taken online; to participate in our online courses we recommend the following minimum computer specification.
Programme details
The topics covered in the course in Data Analysis in Ecology include:
- The use of statistics and types of data
- Descriptive statistics
- Processing and presenting data
- The normal distribution and data transformations
- Hypothesis testing, confidence intervals and comparisons of two sample means
- Analysing frequencies
- Finding correlations
- Regression analysis
- Introducing analysis of variance; one-way and two-way ANOVAs
- When to use non-parametric statistics and a brief overview of advanced statistics
Staff
Dr Thomas Hesselberg
Role: Tutor
Certification
sample certificate of attendance
.If participants apply to take the course without accreditation and successfully complete the course, they will receive a Certificate of Attendance. In order to successfully complete the course participants must actively contribute to all the discussion forums.
Teaching methods
The course is taken entirely online but is tutor-led by an experienced University of Oxford researcher.
Apply for this course
If you have any questions about applying please email:est@conted.ox.ac.uk or phone: +44 (0)1865 286951.
The fees for taking this course without academic credit are:
- Non-accredited: £375.00
Sorry, this course is not currently accepting applications. If you have any questions about this course, please use the course enquiry form.
Programmes including this module
This module can be studied as part of these programmes: