Syllabus for Biostats Course VHM 802 at AVC - Winter Semester
2025
The syllabus for the exam of VHM 802 consists of:
- A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments, by Gary Oehlert (GO):
Chapters 1, 3-5, 7-10 (only 10.1-3), 11-14 and 16
- Veterinary Epidemiologic Research, 2nd ed., by Dohoo, Martin and Stryhn (VER):
Chapters 14-16 and 20-22,
except for the listed exceptions below:
- GO sections/topics listed explicitly as omissions in Sessions 6-9 and 11-13,
- VER Sections 15.4.5, 16.13-15, 20.5.3-5, 21.3-4, 21.5.6-9, 22.3, 22.4.3-5, 22.5-6,
- material about contrasts in GO beyond basic comparison of
treatment groups for one and two factors,
- material in GO about Hasse diagrams.
Additional material presented at the lectures is generally not directly part of
the syllabus, but the corresponding sections of the books are (unless
listed above). One exception to this rule is the following topic, which is not described in
any of the textbook references (with any degree of detail) but is still included in the syllabus:
- the material in Session 9 on cross-over designs,
Furthermore included in the syllabus is the programming
of the models/analyses in Minitab or Stata, and the interpretation of the
corresponding output.
Finally, students not taking the regression part of VHM 802 (because
they already have taken or simultaneously take VHM 812) will not be examined
in the regression portions of the syllabus (VER: Chapters 14-16).
Henrik Stryhn
(hstryhn@upei.ca) 2025-04-01