Each student needs to bring a portable computer installed with R to every class.

This course consists of two parts: 1) experimental design and 2) data analysis. The first part of the course on experimental design largely follows a textbook (Ruxton and Colegrave, 2016; see reference information below). The main focus of the data analysis part is the method of maximum likelihood, although other approaches will also be discussed. Computer simulations will be utilized to aid in understanding the concepts of various statistical methods, but prior experience in programming is not required.