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Università degli Studi di Parma
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COMPUTER SKILLS
cod. 13461

Academic year 2007/08
1° year of course - First semester
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Academic discipline
Indefinito/interdisciplinare (NN)
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16 hours
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2 credits
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Learning objectives

This course has been designed to provide an initial theoretical andpractical approach to computer tools currently in use by students inthe biological-naturalistic field during their studies and inpreparation of the degree thesis.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites.<br />

Course unit content

<br /> Introduction to operating systems. Function and access to the computerlab. Disk space. Advanced features of wordprocessing. Computerspreadsheets: management and graphic realisation. Multimediapresentations: slide preparation, insertion of standard objects andgraphs, links between slides, links to other presentations, customanimations. <br />Image handling.<br />Applied statistics with SPSS:frequency distributions and tables; descriptive statistics; explorativeanalysis: box & whisker plot; contingency tables; comparison ofmedia: single, independent and paired sample t test; ANOVA analysis forclassification criteria; general linear model: univaried analysis withstandard and custom models; linear regression and correlation analysis;multivariate analysis of variance: variable reduction and factoranalysis, multidimensional scaling.<br />On-line bibliographic searchtechniques: catalogues (OPAC), electronic publications, data banks(Silverplatter, ScienceDirect), SFX integration.

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Bibliography

No course texts.

Teaching methods

<br />Oral lessonssupported by multimedial presentation featured with Microsoft Powerpoint.

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