Module 6.3

Participants will be introduced to the design and implementation of sampling strategies. The course consists of online lectures and a short answers quiz. The participant must achieve a grade of at least 70% on the quiz to pass the module.

Module Objectives

• Describe the following with respect to statistical methods: bias, accuracy and precision; calculating probabilities – independent events, mutually exclusive; population vs. sample; parameter vs. variable; frequency distribution – Normal, Binomial, Poisson; statistical computations – mean, median, mode, range, variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, standard error of the mean, confidence limit.
• Describe inventory techniques, including point sample and plot sampling.

Module Schedule

This course involves recorded lectures. See course content below to get started!