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Modernizing Statistics Education via Biology Applications
21 Oct 2015 | Contributor(s): Olcay Akman
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/254In most traditional statistics courses, instructors use data from different fields in an effort to give the courses an interdisciplinary flavor. They generally fail because these attempts...
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Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC)
27 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/851An online journal focusing upon generally-applicable studies of cell biology. From the journal: MBoC publishes research articles and essays that report...
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Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education
24 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here:https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/854Article abstract:"There is an emerging consensus that undergraduate biology education in the United States is at a crucial juncture, especially...
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Numbers Count!: Calculus 2 course
28 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Claudia Neuhauser
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/751Based upon the University of Minnesota Bachelor's of Science in Health Science calculus curriculum (part 2), this course introduces linear transformations,...
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Numbers Count!: Statistics course
28 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Claudia Neuhauser
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/750This course in the Numbers Count! curriculum introduces the basics of statistical analysis, including basic definitions, data visualization, and application.
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OpenIntro
24 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/889OpenIntro was started with one goal in mind: create a free and open-source introductory textbook. The mission of OpenIntro is to make educational products that...
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Project MOSAIC
23 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Daniel Kaplan, Karl-Dieter Crisman, Nicholas Horton, Eric Marland, Randall Pruim
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/825From the project website: Project MOSAIC is a community of educators working to develop a new way to introduce mathematics, statistics, computation and modeling...
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Project MOSAIC
23 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Daniel Kaplan, Karl-Dieter Crisman, Nicholas Horton, Eric Marland, Randall Pruim
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/825From the project website: Project MOSAIC is a community of educators working to develop a new way to introduce mathematics, statistics, computation and modeling...
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Quantitative Reasoning: Peer Review 16(3), 2014
27 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Shelly Johnson Carey
This resource has been updated - find the current version here:https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/862In this issue of the journal Peer Review, the authors discuss the issues surrounding quantitative literacy. From the journal:...
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QUBES: a community focused on supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology
30 Jul 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Jeremy M Wojdak
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/226This letter provides an overview of the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project funded through the National Science Foundation. The project has five...
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R Commander
04 Sep 2015 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar
R provides a powerful and comprehensive system for analysing data and when used in conjunction with the R-commander (a graphical user interface, commonly known as Rcmdr) it also provides one that is easy and intuitive to use.
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Radiant
16 Sep 2015 | Software (On-site)
Business analytics using R and Shiny.
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Radiant Lite
24 Jul 2019 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar
Stripped down version of Radiant on QUBES
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Revolutionizing the Use of Natural History Collections in Education
10 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Karen E. Powers, L. Alan Prather, Joesph A. Cook, James Woolley, Henry L. Bart Jr., Anna K. Monfils, Petra Sierwald
Using natural history collections, both physical specimens and archive data, promises to connect classroom learning with the real world of science. From the article: "Natural history collections are an irreplaceable and extensive record of life, and form the basis of our...
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RStudio IDE for R
22 Jan 2015 | Software (On-site)
RStudio is a GUI for R, the statistical programming language.
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SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations
16 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Brian Winkel
SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations is about teaching differential equations using modeling and technology upfront and throughout the learning process. You can learn more at our dynamic website, www.simiode.org, where we...
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Statistical Power for One-Sample t-Test
18 May 2015 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar
Interactive visualization of statistical power for a one-sample t-test.
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Statistics for biologists
12 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/897There is no disputing the importance of statistical analysis in biological research, but too often it is considered only after an experiment is completed, when it may be too...
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statsTeachR
23 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Nicholas Reich, Andrea Foulkes, Harrel Blatt, Eric Cohen, Gregory Matthews
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/781From the project website:What is statsTeachR?statsTeachR is an open-access, online repository of modular lesson plans, a.k.a. "modules", for teaching...
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Sting, Carry and Stock: How Corpse Availability Can Regulate De-Centralized Task Allocation in a Ponerine Ant Colony
20 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Istvan Karsai, Thomas Schmickl
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/844We develop a model to produce plausible patterns of task partitioning in the ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum based on the availability of living prey and prey corpses. The...