Description of the training

- This three-day course aims at making researchers sufficiently knowledgeable on experimental design and statistics to make results from animal experiments more reliable, robust and reproducible, while avoiding animal waste and complying with the 3Rs of animal research, with particular emphasis on ''Reduction'.

Topics covered during the training

- Planning for reproducibility in animal research.
- Common mistakes in design and execution of experiments.
- Formulating objectives and testing hypotheses.
- Avoidance of bias (randomization, blind assessment, adequate controls).
- Formal experimental designs.
- Independent replication and appropriate experimental units.
- Estimating an adequate sample size.
- Basic concepts in probability and statistics.
- Single and two factor analysis of variance.
- Analysis of covariance.
- Data transformations and non-parametric methods.
- Multivariate analysis of variance.

Species covered during the training

The training covers all species.

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