InfluentialPoints provides information and training in statistics for students and professionals working in:

What InfluentialPoints Does: Our Biostatistics Course  Our Statistical Critiques  Our Image galleries 

  Our BIOSTASTISTICS COURSE  is intended for under-graduate and post-graduate applied biologists, as well as professionals who need a refresher course to update them on modern statistical techniques and using R 

•  This e-course is specifically designed to enhance understanding of analytical methods, and to enable you to better design studies.

•  Whilst it does not assume a prior knowledge of stats, a rapid progression to a sophisticated treatment is facilitated by Monte-Carlo and nonparametric methods.

•  This e-learning course applies a cross-disciplinary approach to design and analysis, incorporating both the medical statistics approach (confidence intervals), and the ecological statistics approach (hypothesis testing and modelling).

•  There are numerous worked examples, both using the formulae and R - the free 'package' / 'language'. We provide R-code for the analyses.

•  There are also many critiques of published research assessing the adequacy of the study design, and of the analytical techniques.

  Our CRITIQUES & CONTROVERSIES  provide on-line critiques of statistical methodologies and critical assessments of past and ongoing controversies in bio-statistical design and analysis.

•  Why are biostatistics in such a mess?

•  An assessment of the adequacy and desirability of the parametric paradigm.

•  A review of (much better) ways to display distributions, together with R-code.

•  A critical assessment of the autism and MMR vaccine controversy.

  IN THE FIELD  provides information and images useful to biological and medical researchers.

•  Arthropods of medical or veterinary importance: 'Insect Vectors of Disease' showing mosquitoes, horse flies and tsetse flies indulging in their favourite occupation - biting the photographer!

•  Arthropods of agricultural, forestry or conservation interest: 'The private lives of aphids - an extraordinary set of close-up images revealing their sex lives (such as it is...), their predators and parasites, and their relationship with ants.

•  Health and rural development: 'Life and death in a Pastoralist Community' - which hopefully provides some insight into the everyday life of people and livestock living in a harsh semi-arid environment.

  Our images are published under a Creative Commons License and may be freely used on condition that InfluentialPoints is acknowledged as the source and a link provided.