Objectives

Students will learn to design experiments. Students will learn to understand how to gather experimental data and how various experimental designs relate to different statistical methods. Students will learn to critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different experimental designs. Students will learn how new research questions and experimental designs build on the existing literature and generate cumulative scientific knowledge. After the course, students should know how to design meaningful experiments and draft implementation and analysis plans to run the experiments in practice. Students will understand the connection between their experimental design and statistical tools that they have learned in their statistics courses.