UMD Biostatistics: Schedule
This page contains the schedule and links for lectures, activities, homework, and vignettes for Ecostats Fall 2026. I am currently working on updating the lectures and intro specificall so we have more trianing for using r to facilitate doing the statistics easier.
Week 1: Foundations
01 - Introduction - Start with R
02 - Project Design and Graphing data
Week 2: Data & Probability
03 - Descriptive Stats and Wrangling
04 - Probability and Inference I
Week 3: Mean Comparisons
05 - T-Tests - one - two - paired
06 - Power and Type I and II error
Week 4: Experimental Design
07 - Non Parametric T-Tests
08 - Study Design and Sampling
Week 5: Relationship Modeling
09 - Correlation vs Linear Models
Week 6: Regression & ANOVA
10 - Multiple Regression
11 - Analysis of Variance
Week 7: Complex ANOVA & LMM
12 - 2 way ANOVA
- 🖥️ Lecture
- 📋 Activity
- 💻 Homework
- 📖 Vignette: Two-factor ANOVA (Coming Soon)
13 - Nested ANOVAs
- 🖥️ Lecture
- 📋 Activity
- 💻 Homework
- 📖 Vignette: Linear Mixed Models (Coming Soon)
Week 8: GLMs
14 - GLM and Logistic Regression
- 🖥️ Lecture
- 📋 Activity
- 📖 Vignette: PCA (Coming Soon)
15 - ANCOVA - Analysis of Covariance
Week 9: Multivariate Analysis
16 - Multivariate Statistics
- 🖥️ Lecture
- 📋 Activity
- 📖 Vignette: NMDS (Coming Soon)