The PhD Essentials

Experimental Design and Statistics

Coming Soon!

What you’ll find here:

  • How to plan your statistical analysis before you perform the experiment
  • How to perform experiments randomised and blinded, and why that’s important
  • Types of variables
  • Learn how to determine the way your data is distributed, and why this is important
  • Replicates
  • Sample size, n and N
  • Learn what power is and how to determine sample size to achieve strong statistical power
  • How to analyse correlation studies
  • Learn the best central measure to use
  • Learn the best error bars to use
  • Choose the right graph to present your data 
  • Learn about Prism and why it’s great for data presentation and analysis
  • Learn how to identify outliers
  • Multiple comparisons, type I and type II errors
  • Learn about the different types of statistical tests and how to choose the appropriate statistical test to perform for your data
  • P and p
  • Be able to critically assess the methods, results, and conclusions of published papers

 

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