This site is a work in progress! Original .R and .rmd files from are being migrated into a new book using quarto. Developed with support from Baruch College's Center for Teaching and Learning in conjunction with other BIO 2100 OER materials https://sites.google.com/view/biostats/home
I proposed the Biostatistics (ENV/BIO 2100) course in 2017 and taught for the first time in 2018. The course focuses on teaching introductory statistics from a biological perspective, so examples, papers, and problems focus on natural systems when possible.
My desire to teach the course using the R statistical language and using freely available resources coincided with a statewide funding effort at CUNY and SUNY campuses to develop OER (open-educational resources). Baruch College's Center for Teaching and Learning have supported the continued development of the class.
The class now includes
- website (https://sites.google.com/view/biostats/home) housing slides and associated material
- tutorials for many lessons using Swirl (https://swirlstats.com/)
- developed with support of a QUBES working group (https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/teaching_r_fmn)
- this book!
Template from https://github.com/nmfs-opensci/NOAA-quarto-simple.