Biostatistics and design of experiments in biotechnology

The aim of the course is to provide fundamental knowledge to describe and analyse biological and biotechnological data with the most appropriate statistical tools. The course will provide a strong theoretical foundation together with a practical use of descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and hypothesis testing. The course also aims to provide the basic tools of common experimental designs. Besides theoretical classes, close attention will be paid to computer sessions.

Students will acquire the following skills: 1) the ability to organize, summarize and represent biotechnological data; 2) use the appropriate standard errors and margins of error to define confidence intervals for the main statistics; 3) formulate the hypothesis and apply the appropriate statistical test; 3) determine the appropriate design of experiment; 5) understand and comment on the outputs of a statistical software