01-01 · Experimental unit card swap — cards (PDF)
Identify experimental units and discuss replication using the case cards.
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01-02 · Experimental unit card swap — supplementary cards (PDF)
Practise identifying experimental units with additional cases.
01-03 · Experimental unit card swap — sorting mat (PDF)
Use the A3 mat to organise your group’s case cards.
01-04 · Experimental unit card swap — answer sheet (PDF)
Record your group’s answers and reasoning.
02-01 · Design surgery — group packs (PDF)
Diagnose experimental designs and propose improvements in your group.
02-02 · Design surgery — checklist (PDF)
Check experimental units, replication, allocation and sources of bias.
02-03 · Design surgery — completed example (PDF)
Review a worked example of the design surgery activity.
03-01 · Randomisation workshop — student handout (PDF)
Follow the shared case and plan a reproducible treatment allocation.
03-02 · Randomisation workshop — extension cards (PDF)
Apply randomisation within blocks to your group’s extension case.
03-04 · Randomisation workshop
Generate, audit and justify treatment allocations, including randomisation within rooms.
04-01 · Lego design workshop — student handout (PDF)
Build and compare blocked and factorial experimental designs.
04-02 · Lego design workshop — task and challenge cards (PDF)
Use the group tasks and optional challenges during the physical workshop.
05-01 · Simulate before analysing
Build a blocked allocation and simulate two datasets using a supplied GLM.
05-02 · GLM consolidation and preparation for power
Explain model assumptions, check your R simulation and prepare for Unit 6.
06-01 · Simulation-based power analysis
Build power curves and assess the assumptions behind a design recommendation.
06-02 · Power assumptions and model formulae
Consolidate power analysis and prepare a model map for Unit 7.
Group project — choose a question and defend an analysis
Choose a scientific question, justify the analysis and propose a follow-up experiment.
Week 42 — revision and project scoping
A 2½-hour revision task and a one-page group project brief for 21 October.
06-05 · Calf feeding and growth
Choose and justify a question and analysis using documented synthetic observations.
06-06 · Broiler feed efficiency
Choose and justify a question and analysis using documented synthetic observations.
06-07 · Pig feeding and diarrhoea
Choose and justify a question and analysis using documented synthetic observations.
06-08 · Horse shelter use
Choose and justify a question and analysis using documented synthetic observations.
07-01 · Choose, fit and explain a GLM
Work through pen-study examples, interpret output and check another group’s answers
07-02 · GLM recap
Plain-language explanations of the model terms, output columns and diet comparisons
07-03 · Review the model results and prepare for next week
Practise explaining predictions and interactions, then consider animals sharing a pen
08-01 · Split plots, Latin squares and unequal groups
Identify treatment assignments, fit models and explain direct package output.
08-02 · Design and tool consolidation
Use a yes/no model and plan a future pen trial with simglm.
09-01 · Check the model
Use the experiment, fitting output and plots to justify an action and check again.
09-02 · Diagnostic report and repeated-measures bridge
Consolidate a defensible diagnostic report and introduce repeated measurements.
Case 1 · Pen event counts
Read the output from two count models and decide what the evidence supports.
Case 2 · Animals sharing pens
Check whether gains from animals in the same pen share a pattern.
Case 3 · Starting weight and growth
Check a straight-line relationship and decide whether to fit a curve.
Case 4 · Positive and negative welfare screens
Check a logistic fit and decide what the observed screen rates support.
09-07 · Sketch repeated measurements
Trace gains from the same animal and identify the conditions shared within pens.
10-01 · Repeated weights and crossover studies
Use lme4, performance and marginaleffects directly to analyse repeated calf weights and a cow crossover.
10-02 · Explain repeated and crossover evidence
A 60-minute follow-up using direct package calls, a calf change comparison, and crossover assumptions.
11-01 · Fit, predict and check change through time
Researchers assign Control or Enhanced feed to each of 32 calves, balancing the two diets within each of four rooms. They weigh each calf at weeks 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8. These…
11-02 · Longitudinal model recap
Researchers assign Control or Enhanced feed to each of 32 calves, with 16 calves receiving each diet. They balance diets within four rooms and weigh every calf at weeks 0…
11-03 · Explain a longitudinal result
No new essential method or advanced fitting is required. Use scripts or supplied outputs. Choose the steps below that help with the same project draft you will revise during…
12-01 · Meaningful estimates: one figure, one paragraph
Four groups of three; rotate driver, outcome translator and uncertainty auditor. Essential teaching takes place in class; no new pre-class reading is required. Open the…
12-02 · Scientific interpretation: recap
In the invented cress study, researchers choose pulse or mist watering for trays and count sprouts on day 10. Our question compares mist minus pulse in the chance that a…
12-03 · Consolidate interpretation and draft your decisions
Allow 60 minutes total, including project work. No new method, dataset search or unbounded assignment is required.
13-01 · Ask, check and communicate
Four groups of three. Bring your Week 12 main figure, results paragraph and current report, or bring your analysis plan and a labelled descriptive figure. No additional…
13-02 · Consulting and reproducibility recap
Begin with what researchers did. In the lamb study, researchers assign supplements to whole paddocks, then weigh six lambs in each. Counting more lambs or repeat weights…
13-03 · Final project preparation
Use 1–2 hours total to revise the report, prepare slides, rehearse and check rendering. Choose durations within that cap: report and figure 30–45 minutes, slides 20–35…
14-01 · Present your project and give useful feedback
Explain your design, result and follow-up experiment; review classmates' evidence.
14-02 · Revise a follow-up design and reflect
Use peer questions to make one defensible revision and consolidate course learning.
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