BIOL 300: Lab Schedule for Spring 2012
Labs start in the second week of term (Jan. 9-13), in room 2078 BioSciences.
The lab manual will be available starting the first week of class from Copiesmart if the UBC Village, or here in PDF format.
If you wish to work on lab material on your own computer, you can click here to download all datafiles in ZIP format.
To download the snail population data, click here.
To download the Darwin's t's data, click here.
| Week | Topic | Fun stuff |
| Week 1: Jan. 4-6 | NO LABS | |
| Week 2: Jan. 9-13 | 1. Introduction and Graphics | |
| Week 3: Jan. 16-20 | 2. Sampling | |
| Jan. 23-27 | 3. Describing Data | Sample means applet and Confidence intervals applet |
| Jan. 30-Feb. 3 | 4. Probability | Let's make a deal |
| Feb. 6-10 | 5. Frequency data and proportions | |
| Feb. 13-17 | 6. Contingency Analysis | Contingency table simulation |
| Reading week | ||
| Feb. 27-Mar. 2 | NO LABS (midterm on Feb. 29) | |
| Mar. 5-9 | 7. Normal distribution and one-sample inference | Sample means applet |
| Mar. 12-16 | 8. Comparing two groups | Robustness applet and Left-right dexterity game |
| Mar. 19-23 | 9. Comparing more than two groups: ANOVA | |
| Mar. 26-30 | 10. Regression and correlation | Transformation applet |
| Apr. 2-5 | NO LABS |
(Note to instructors from other courses: Contact Mike Whitlock to get some instructor materials for this lab manual. The labs are designed to match the presentation of The Analysis of Biological Data, by Whitlock and Schluter.)