Overview

These materials include background information as well as practicals for the Statistics section of the NST Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences paper at the University of Cambridge.

Learning Objectives

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Prerequisites

Students are expected to attend accompanying lectures.

Students are also expected to have some basic R programming knowledge.

Exercises

Exercises in these materials are labelled according to their level of difficulty:

Level	Description
	Exercises in level 1 are simpler and designed to get you familiar with the concepts and syntax covered in the course.
	Exercises in level 2 combine different concepts together and apply it to a given task.
	Exercises in level 3 require going beyond the concepts and syntax introduced to solve new problems.

Citation & Authors

Please cite these materials if:

You adapted or used any of them in your own teaching.
These materials were useful for your research work. For example, you can cite us in the methods section of your paper: “We carried our analyses based on the recommendations in YourReferenceHere”.

You can cite these materials as:

Hodgson, V. (2026). NST Part II BBS Statistics Materials. https://cambiotraining.github.io/quarto-course-template/

Or in BibTeX format:

@misc{YourReferenceHere,
  author = {Hodgson, Vicki},
  month = {8},
  title = {NST Part II BBS Statistics Materials},
  url = {https://cambiotraining.github.io/quarto-course-template/},
  year = {2026}
}

About the authors:

Vicki Hodgson
Affiliation: Cambridge Centre for Research Informatics Training
Roles: writing - original draft