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Basics of Environmental Data Processing

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0169/01
Abbreviation ZZED
Course title Basics of Environmental Data Processing
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Oldřich Motyka, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Preparation of sampling plan, storage of biological data.
2. Types of biological data - quantitative and qualitative data, description, measures of location and variability, visualization, identification of outliers.
3. Random variable and probability distribution (normal, standardized normal) and their applications in biology and ecology.
4. Other types of distributions (binomial, Poisson) and their applications in biology and ecology).
5. Introduction to hypothesis testing - null and alternative hypothesis, type I. and II. errors, statistical test and its strength, p - value.
6. The problem of multiple hypothesis testing in biology and ecology and correction procedures.
7. One-sample tests - parametric and nonparametric methods.
8. Comparison of parameters of two sample populations - parametric and nonparametric methods.
9. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) - evaluation of variance of biological and ecological data, evaluation of normality, Kruskal - Wallis test - nonparametric alternative ANOVA.
10. Correlation analysis - Pearson's and Spearman's correlation coefficient, similarity measures in ecology (similarity coefficients, correlation coefficients, covariance).
11. Regression analysis - linear regression, assumptions of linear model, estimation of regression model parameters, detemination coefficient, basic statistical tests.
12. Regression analysis - polynomial regression, basic statistical tests, residue analysis.
13. Introduction to multiple linear regression - types of variable interactions, multicollinearity, the problem of missing data, applications to biological and ecological data.

E-learning

Submission of assigned protocols.
Semester work.

Literature

SOKAL, R., R.,ROHLF, F.J. Biometry : the principles and practice of statistics in biological research. 4th ed. New York, N.Y.: W.H. Freeman and Company, 2012. xix, 937. ISBN 9780716786047 
ZAR, J., H. Biostatistical analysis. Fifth edition. Uttar Pradesh, India: Pearson India Education Services, 2014. 756 stran. ISBN 9789332536678 

Advised literature

CRAWLEY, M., J. Statistics : an introduction using R. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. xiii, 327. ISBN 0470022973 
PETRIE, A., WATSON, P. Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science. Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd ed, 2006