Base Knowledge
Mathematics.
Teaching Methodologies
Theoretical exposition accompanied by exemplification. Resolution of exercises as a way of consolidating the acquired knowledge.
Learning Results
- To understand the basic concepts of statistics.
- To organize, analyze and interpret statistical data.
- To choose and apply appropriate basic statistical methods for data analysis.
Program
- Descriptive statistics. Data types and presentation. Measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion.
- Probabilities.
- The normal distribution.
- Hypothesis testing for the mean of a sample.
- Hypothesis test for the mean of two samples.
- Multi-sample hypothesis testing and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Multiple comparisons.
- Data transformation.
- Simple linear regression
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Zar , JH (2010) Biostatistical Analysis , 5ª edição . Prentice Hall, Inc., NJ