Details

Faculty	Faculty of Science and Medicine
Domain	Biology
Code	UE-SBL.20002
Languages	English
Type of lesson	Exercise Lecture
Level	Master
Semester	SA-2022

Title

French	Biostatistiques II - analyse multivariée
German	Biostatistik II - Multivariate Analyse
English	Biostatistics II - multivariate analysis

Schedules and rooms

Summary schedule	Thursday 09:15 - 12:00, Hebdomadaire (Autumn semester)
Contact's hours	28

Teaching

Responsibles	Rohr Rudolf Philippe
Teachers	Bersier Louis-Félix Rohr Rudolf Philippe
Description	Students will learn basic and advanced techniques in multivariate analyses, they will perform exercises with data from ecological experiments. Specifically, the following topics will be introduced: data type and transformation; similarity and distance matrices; Mantel and partial Mantel tests; clustering technics; principal component analysis (PCA), correspondence analysis (CA), and non-metric multidimensional analysis (NMDS); redundancy analysis (RDA) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA); multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA); co-correspondence analysis (COCA); the fourth-corner problem. This course is given biennially and alternates with Biostatistics I - generalized linear models and mixed effects models.
Softskills	No
Off field	Yes
BeNeFri	Yes
Mobility	Yes
UniPop	No

Documents

Bibliography

Please consult the Moodle page of the course.

Oral exam - SA-2022, Session d'hiver 2023

Date	30.01.2023 08:40 - 11:55
Assessments methods	By rating
Descriptions of Exams	Oral exam (20 min); one mark.