Course Outline
Class Time | Fridays, 09:00 - 12:00, Term 2 |
Location | Room 143, SPPH Building, 2206 East Mall |
Instructors | Sarah Henderson, BCCDC, 604-910-9144 Contact by email |
Teaching Assistant | Angela Yao Contact by email |
Objectives | The main goals of this course are to teach you:
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Course Format | Subject areas will be introduced with readings from the text or the scientific literature and short lectures. Classes will include discussions of focused questions about the readings and analyses you did that week, and will also include consideration of the issues you are dealing with for your term papers. |
Software | For this course we will be supporting the Deducer graphical interface for R. Installation is free, and will be covered in the first week of class. We can also support you if you want to code in R. You are welcome to use other statistical packages, but we cannot promise to be able to help you with them. |
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Evaluation | Evaluation for grading purposes will be based on: |
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The grade will reflect your:
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The final average mark for the class will be in the A- range, because that is the typical entering undergraduate average of students in the class.
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