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- What is biostatistics?
- Data handling and visualisation
- Probability distributions
- Hypothesis testing
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- Further learning
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Probability distributions
By the end of this second interactive tutorial you will be able to:
- describe what sampling and probability distributions are
- list some common distributions of biological data
- visualise the distribution of your data in R
- pick a suitable distribution to model your data with
Before starting this tutorial, we recommend you complete the first tutorial on data handling and visualisation or have basic knowledge or R and the tidyverse.
This tutorial will take about 2 hours to complete. When you have finished come back to this page to continue the Biostatistics collection.
Continue to the next page to learn about hypothesis testing.