Fundamentals of Statistics (for Veterinary and Animal Science)

Aims: To develop a basic vocabulary and understanding of statistical concepts. To understand the principal statistical reference od scientific publications in order to pinpoint the most relevant results and evaluate also with statistical tools the conclusions made from other researchers. To start thinking about PhD project also from a statistical point of view in order to best organize the experimental trial and data collection and understand the numbers will be generated during PhD. Ultimately understanding the basic concepts of statistics to handle data confidently and properly.

Topics: Store summarize and describe data,descriptive statistics; statistical distribution: normal, binomial and Poisson distributions;Sampling distribution; probability and hypothesis testing: standard error and confidence interval; binomial and chi-squared test, comparing mean:t test for paired and independent samples.