Course overview

Spring 2026

On this website you will find all materials for sections taught by Iain Moodie on the course BIOB11 at Lund University. All course communication should take place on LU Canvas. The full schedule for the spring 2026 version of the course is shown below. Previous versions of the course are archived as releases on GitHub.

	Prep	Morning	Afternoon	Due	Book
Week 13
Mon, Mar 23	💻 Access a laptop	👋 Obligatoriskt upprop, Introduction to course 📍 Heden (G110) 🕒 11:00–12:00	💻 Introduction to exploratory data analysis 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00	✅ Lab report ⏰ 17:00
Tue, Mar 24		👨🏻‍🏫 Data, plots and descriptive statistics 📍 Hörsal Blå hallen 🕒 09:00–12:00	💻 Introduction to R 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00		📖 IMS2 [1] [4] [5] 🛠️ HOPR [2]
Wed, Mar 25		💻 Reproducible analyses in R 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 09:00–12:00	💻 Reproducible analyses in R 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00		🛠️ R4DS [1] [3] [5] [7] [10] [28]
Thu, Mar 26		👨🏻‍🏫 The scientific method & experimental design 📍 Hörsal Röda rummet 🕒 09:00–12:00			📖 IMS2 [2]
Fri, Mar 27		👨🏻‍🏫 The foundations of inference 📍 Hörsal Blå hallen 🕒 09:00–12:00	💻 Statistical inference with bootstrap 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00	✅ Lab report ⏰ 17:00	📖 IMS2 [12] [16.1] [17.2] [19.1] [20.2] [21.2]
Week 14
Mon, Mar 30		👨🏻‍🏫 Vetenskaplig integritet och etik 📍 Hörsal Röda rummet 🕒 09:00–12:00	👨🏻‍🏫 Null hypothesis testing & test statistics 📍 Hörsal Röda rummet 🕒 13:00–15:30
Tue, Mar 31		💻 Hypothesis testing with randomisation 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 09:00–12:00	💻 Hypothesis testing with randomisation 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00	✅ Lab report ⏰ 17:00	📖 IMS2 [11] [14] [17.1] [18.1] [20.1] [21.1] [22.2]
Wed, Apr 1		👨🏻‍🏫 Regression modelling 📍 Hörsal Blå hallen 🕒 09:00–12:00	💻 Regression modelling in R 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00	✅ Lab report ⏰ 17:00	📖 IMS2 [7] [8] [9] [24.1-3] [25] [26]
Week 15
Tue, Apr 7		👨🏻‍🏫 Statistical inference with mathematical models 📍 Hörsal Blå hallen 🕒 09:00–12:00			📖 IMS2 [13] [16.2] [17.3] [18.2] [19.2] [20.3] [21.3] [22.3] [24.4-5]
Wed, Apr 8	📃 Read seminar papers	💬 Group seminar 📍 Krypt - Masklaven (T105a), Krypt - Renlaven (T108), Ris - Hjortronet (T104), Ris - Kråkbäret (T107), Ris - Lingonet (T105), Ris - Ripbäret (T106) 🕒 09:00–12:00	💻 Data analysis & report writing exercise 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00
Thu, Apr 9		💻 Data analysis & report writing exercise 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 09:00–12:00	💻 Data analysis & report writing exercise 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00	✅ Analysis and report ⏰ 17:00
Fri, Apr 10			💻 Exam practise 📍 Heden (G110), Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00
Week 16
Tue, Apr 14	❓ Prepare questions	❓ Question & answer session for exam 📍 Hörsal Blå hallen 🕒 09:00–10:00
Thu, Apr 16	📝 Read the exam guide	📝 Exam 📍 Heden (G110), Maskrosen (E121) 🕒 09:00–13:00		✅ Exam ⏰ 13:00
Fri, Apr 17		👨🏻‍🏫 👥 Introduction to project work & Project work 📍 Ängen (G111) 🕒 09:00–12:00	👥 Project work 📍 Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00	✅ Project proposal ⏰ 14:00
Week 17
Mon, Apr 20		👥 Project work 📍 Ängen (G111) 🕒 09:00–12:00	👥 Project work 📍 Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00
Tue, Apr 21		👥 👨🏻‍🏫 Project work & Exam feedback and review 📍 Ängen (G111) 🕒 09:00–12:00	👥 Project work 📍 Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00
Wed, Apr 22		👥 Project work 📍 Ängen (G111) 🕒 09:00–12:00	👥 Project work 📍 Ängen (G111) 🕒 13:00–16:00
Thu, Apr 23		👥 Project work 📍 Ängen (G111) 🕒 09:00–12:00		✅ Project report ⏰ 13:00
Fri, Apr 24	📝 Read assigned report ⬆️ Upload slides	🎤 Project presentations 📍 Hörsal Blå hallen 🕒 09:00–12:00	🎤 Project presentations 📍 Hörsal Blå hallen 🕒 13:00–16:00	✅ Peer-review ⏰ 17:00
Week 19
Thu, May 7	📝 Read the exam guide		📝 Retake exam 📍 Maskrosen (E121) 🕒 13:00–17:00