Modeling Crop Rotation with Discrete Mathematics

11 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Jennifer Lorraine Cartier, Kellen Myers, Victoria Ferguson, Yekaterina Voskoboynik

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/864Module Summary: The production of crops is essential to human life. Producing these crops, however, comes with it a cost to the environment. The commonly used agricultural...

Draft Version: Energy Balance Models

11 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Daniel Flath, Hans G. Kaper, Frank Wattenberg, Esther Widiasih

This resource has been updated - find the current version here:  https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/863This module introduces the student to the process of mathematical modeling. It shows how the process starts in the 4real world! with a...

Java Applets for Power and Sample Size

10 Mar 2015 | Software (Off-site) | Contributor(s): Russell Lenth

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/899From the website:This software is intended to be useful in planning statistical studies.  It is not intended to be used for analysis of data that have already been...

Mathematics for Biologists Problem Workbook

27 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Juergen Gerlach

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/748This is a workbook of solved problems created by Dr. Juergen Gerlach at Radford University, for  students in Math 119 - Mathematics for Biologists.   He is...

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, A Bayesian Approach

25 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Jim Albert, Allan Rossman

From the project website " Workshop Statistics:  Discovery with Data, A Bayesian Approach, Key College Press; ISBN: 1930190123 (coauthored with Allan J. Rossman of Dickinson College) is a collection of classroom and homework activities designed to introduce the student to...

Mathematics for the Life Sciences

24 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Erin N. Bodine, Suzanne Lenhart, Lou Gross

From source site: "This website is designed to provide a variety of information about the text Mathematics for the Life Sciences. It provides some material that supplements the presentations in the text, and will be the primary method used by the authors to pass on new material related...

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...

RStudio IDE for R

22 Jan 2015 | Software (On-site)

RStudio is a GUI for R, the statistical programming language.

Quantitative Modules to accompany general biology courses

06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Lou Gross, Susan Harrell Yee, Monica Beals

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/828This collection of about 50 modules were developed to accompany general biology courses and allow instructors to add some quantitative examples in many of the topics in a...

Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?

06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/890https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5XkhUGzBs

A quick tour of IONTW

30 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Winfried Just, Ying Xin

In this module we guide you through some of the capabilities of IONTW. Highlights include the types of networks supported, setting up various types of models of disease transmission, observing the resulting dynamics, and collecting statistics on the outcomes. Along the way, the module also...

Population Growth

30 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Miles Silman

Lab exercise in which students model both discrete and continuous density-independent growth. Students also model discrete and time-lagged density-dependent growth. General questions are provided at the end.

Lotka-Volterra, the logistic equation, and Isle Royale

30 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Stephen Malcolm

Students work through the basic Lotka-Volterra predator prey model using an example in which the prey exhibit density independence.  Students then incorporate density dependence of prey items using several different features of Populus.

SUMS4Bio - Video tutorials in math and stats for biology students

27 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Caleb Adams, Daniel Cole Metz

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/747This website features an array of short video tutorials on ideas covered in Radford University's Math4Bio and Stats4Bio courses. Some videos cover concepts, while...

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...

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...