This paper is from Session 5I: Understanding the statistical education needs of researchers in applied disciplines
which comes under Topic 5: Statistics education in the workplace, government and across disciplines
Paper 5I2 (Wednesday 11th, 11:00-12:30)
Practical Education of Statistics for Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
Presenter
- Satoshi Sekiguchi (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
Co-authors
- Masuo Sueyoshi (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
- Ryoko Uemura (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
- Yoshinori Fujii (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
- Yosuke Sasaki (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
Abstract
With the emphasis on evidence-based veterinary medicine and policy making in recent years, statistics is becoming an increasingly important tools. The modern veterinarians, research workers and decision makers therefore need to be able to handle numerical data confidently and properly. Nevertheless, it is difficult for them to analyze data since they have had few opportunities to get practical education. There is also a tendency for them to hesitate to study statistics by themselves. Given the above background, we have opened the hands-on training course of statistics in veterinary medicine and animal science using software R. It is our intention to provide a statistical technique underlying study design and data analysis relevant to the study of animal health and diseases.