SLE240 - Quantitative Marine Science
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 2 hour online lecture per week and 5 x 3 hour online seminars per trimester (weeks 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10). |
Content
The purpose of this unit is to bring all students up to a basic level of specialized computing skill. Students will be taught how to use a well-known statistics package (R) to provide basic skills in the use and application of these software packages, especially related to marine problems. The unit will cover why dynamics is important in a marine context. This is a hands-on problem-solving unit where students will be solving ecological problems, guided through practical lab exercises. A case study approach will be used to build R capacity in students and will cover topics such as basic programming logic, data structures, debugging, reporting strategies, and plotting basics. It is assumed students will already have a solid understanding of basic parametric statistics (ANOVAs, t-tests, Chi-squared, regression, correlation), a review of these topics will be covered in the R framework. The unit will then move on to statistical model fitting and basic simulation modelling.
Unit Fee Information
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