DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.

I co-developed this course with the instructor, who had taught a similarly motivated course at GU prior to his retirement. This course was listed as BIST 500-B (following BIST 500-A in the certificate series) and I was the course director for this course. design.experiments.syllabus15feb08.doc.

 

Issues and Considerations in Experimental Design (BIST 500-B, 3 units)

This course focuses on the philosophical and analytic elements of clinical research (experimental) design. Students will focus on selecting the best outcomes, designing the most powerful experiments, and promoting the reproducibility of their results. General experimental designs, including ANOVA and ANCOVA, will be covered after discussion of the philosophical attributes of the hypothesis test and scientific method; motivations for proposing an experiment; consideration of the selection/evaluation of outcome measures; and drawing conclusions from/describing the results of carefully designed research.  Assessments will focus students’ attention on the design and analytic elements in published work in their areas of interest, with special attention to understanding the p-value and its role in decision making, (subsequent) experimental design, and the development of new knowledge.

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.