We all know statistics courses can be relatively dry, but BIOL 300 spices things up with interesting biological examples! BIOL 300 is an introductory level statistics course at UBC, which fulfills the statistics requirement for life science majors.
format of the course
The format of this course is usually what you see in most science courses. What makes this course unique is the lab component, where you learn computer coding. Wait … computer coding in a statistics course? It turns out that most statistical analyses are tedious to do by hand, so instead we learned how to automate these calculations. In class, we learned about the different statistical approaches for different contexts, while in lab we learned how to actually run these analyses. Continue reading