An amazing discipline to work in, and one birth cohort study has been running for over 65 years! How do we generate lifetimes’ worth of data in studies in medicine? Ben Goldacre’s BBC Radio 4 documentary, Science: From Cradle to Grave. Correlation vs cause!Įpidemiology: The Science of Cohort Studies. He has spent his career trying to get alt-med in line with real science.Įd Yong, MrT’s blogging hero, writes for Cancer Research UK on the WHO’s verdict on mobile phones and cancer. Here’s a nice profile on Edzard Ernst, the world’s first professor of alternative medicine. ‘Real’ acupuncture no more effective than fake acupuncture, from ScienceDailyĮvidence Based Medicine First, medical website explaining the false health claims of many alternative medicines. For a short clip:Īnd this enlightening talk from Han Rosling: No More Boring Data!Ĭlick here for a funny article on the 9 circles of scientific hell. Watch Hans Rosling’s brilliant Joy of Statistics here. Gapminder awesome human population stats tool. Particularly useful is their page on errors in Biology. Open Door Website stats page and help with graphs and tables.Field Studies Council stats page, including the t-test.And The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice is very useful.Basic Statistical Tools, from the Natural Resources Management Department.Excellent Handbook of Biological Statistics from John MacDonald.Click4Biology statistical analysis page, with great help for calculators and excel.Use the IBDP Bio Excel StatBook to choose, apply and interpret the right test and graphs.Test your reaction times here! Are there significant differences between Friday before lunch and Monday after lunch.T-test practice ( printable GoogleDoc here):

Updated Essential Biology 01 Statistical Analysis Ours looked at pre- and post-assessment data on the Classification unit.Īnd Geoff Browne kindly gave permission to upload his t-test powerpoint to slideshare: If you want o use it, I would recommend doing your own before-after quiz. I shared a copy with each student for them to make notes. This presentation was used in my class as a collaborative task. Also, skip on over to the Excel StatBook resource, for a set of examples, tables, graphs and significance tests that you can play with. Here is the presentation with information on Excel and a worked set of examples with hummingbirds, to tie in with the natural selection topics.

Statistical tools for data analysis ppt