Course schedule

Wednesday teaching sessions for Designing Experiments and Analysing Research Data

Classes normally meet on Wednesdays from 12:30 to 16:00 in room 8846-3305. Select a class to find its preparation, provisional focus, in-class work, and follow-up.

Provisional schedule

Topics and activities may change as the course develops. Reading, video, slide, and activity links will be added to the individual class pages.

Changes to the teaching calendar

The make-up class for 26 August is on Wednesday 18 November 2026, 08:00–11:30. There is also no teaching in week 42.

Unit	Week	Date	Provisional focus
—	35	26 August — no teaching	Class rescheduled
1	36	2 September	Research questions, treatments, responses, and experimental units; experimental-unit card sort
2	37	9 September	Replication, pseudoreplication, controls, and confounding; Design Surgery
3	38	16 September	Randomisation and treatment allocation; randomisation workshop
4	39	23 September	Blocking and factorial designs; physical design-layout activity
5	40	30 September	From experimental design to data generation; simulate before analysing
6	41	7 October	Simulation-based power analysis and power curves
—	42	14 October — no teaching	Autumn break; revision and project scoping, at most 2½ hours per student
7	43	21 October	Translating designs into model formulae; introduction to GLMs
8	44	28 October	Split plots, Latin squares and unequal groups; direct mixed-model tools
9	45	4 November	Model checking and diagnostics
10	46	11 November	Repeated observations and crossover designs; direct model fitting
11	47	18 November, 08:00–11:30	Make-up class. Longitudinal data and change through time. Room to be confirmed.
12	47	18 November, 12:30–16:00	Estimating and interpreting scientifically meaningful outcomes
13	48	25 November	Communicating analyses, consulting clinic, and project preparation
14	49	2 December	Final class. Project presentations and peer feedback.

Preparing for class

This is a flipped classroom. Check the relevant class page in advance, complete the preparation listed there, and bring any required materials to class.