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MB5390:03

Multivariate Methods in Marine Biology

[Not offered in 2004]

Townsville

HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 30 hours practicals. December block mode.

Available to GDipResMeth, GCertResMeth, GDipSc, MAppSc and MSc students.

Staff:

Dr M Sheaves.

The subject will provide a conceptual explanation of multivariate techniques commonly used in the ecological and biological literature. It will address the nature of the questions that can be answered with techniques and will stress how to present the results and interpret the information biologically.

Learning Objectives:

a conceptual understanding of multivariate techniques commonly used by biologists;

an understanding of why multivariate techniques are used by biologists and ecologists and the types of questions that can be answered with these techniques;

the computational skills to make decisions about the analysis of multivariate datasets using complex and powerful computer packages;

the skills to graphically present and interpret the analyses in a biological context for the biological and ecological literature;

an understanding of where and when these techniques can be used to examine biological data; an objective that will be illustrated by use of the recent literature and current research programs.

Assessment by two laboratory exercises (15% each); assignments (70%).