This page was last modified 1 March 2004. It is maintained by Mick Keough
If you are considering using this book as the basis for courses, we have various material that we ourselves use in teaching.
The book contains material for at least two semesters of courses, one of which is a basic biological design and analysis class, and the other an advanced class. We use it for a one semester graduate class, which assumes a basic undergraduate statistics class. The class is taken by postgraduate students in a range of biological departments and by environmnetal science students. We focus on the core linear modelling chapters, together with some basic multivariate statistics. We generally offer the class as a short-term intensive course, rather than spread over a whole semester, although the teaching hours are the same - approximately 30 lectures and 30 hours of computer-based tutorials.
To get a flavour for the course, you can look at our course web page, which contains the material covered in each cluster of 3 lectures and one 3-hour tutorial, and includes copies of the worksheets that are the basis of the tutorials. Each worksheet consists of a series of problems, in which students are required to identify the appropriate analysis, download the relevant data file, and then analyse and interpret the data. The course page also includes data sets, so students can take the worksheets and data and continue to play with them.
We have developed a series of Powerpoint presentations that correspond to the course topics. These presentations are based on material in the book, and include key worked examples. They will save you the trouble of converting the examples to presentations. Powerpoint is also used to generate handouts from these containing key slides. To give you a feel for these presentations, we have included copies of several handouts - one for environmental monitoring (BACI designs, and a larger one describing the structure of a range of linear models. Please contact us if you would like details of what material we have available.
We are steadily working through sets of questions based on each chapter. They will be posted here as they are completed.
Questions are posted as Adobe Acrobat files. In some cases, the questions require additional data sets, which are in Microsoft Excel format, usually accompanied by a description of the variables in the files ("contents" files, also as PDF)