10. Main points

From Chunhui Zhang on May 19th, 2016

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Introduction to Experimental Design
Training session with Dr Helen Brown, Senior Statistician, at The Roslin Institute, January 2016.
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These training sessions were given to staff and research students at the Roslin Institute. The material is also used for the Animal Biosciences MSc course taught at the Institute.
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Content:
Main points
-Think ahead to reporting results

-Obtaining statistical significance
---Think about expected method of analysis
---Calculate appropriate sample size

-Consider potential biases and how to avoid them
---Stratification
---Randomisation
---Blinding

-Generalising the results
---What is the sampling unit ?

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10. Main points

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