Class 1: Why? How?

Methodology of Scientific Research

Andrés Aravena, PhD

February 18, 2022

Welcome to

Methodology of Scientific Research

Methodology of Scientific Research

also known as MSR

also known as MıSıR

also known as 🌽

Today’s questions

Who
Why
How
What

Who?

I am Andres Aravena

  • Assistant Professor at the Molecular Biology and Genomics Department
  • Mathematical Engineer, U. of Chile
  • PhD Informatics, U Rennes 1, France
  • PhD Mathematical Modeling, U. of Chile
  • not a Biologist
  • but an Applied Mathematician who can speak “biologist language”

Why?

Why are you here?

Answer now with your voice

What?

Experimental Design

In this course we will speak about

Design of Experiments

We will learn to design better experiments and achieve higher scientific impact

How?

Course plan

  • Asking good questions
  • Observing nature
    • Estimating
    • Measuring
    • Evaluating uncertainty
  • Finding reasonable theories
  • Testing theories with experiments

Key words

  • Guesstimation
  • Order of magnitude
  • Confidence Intervals
  • Error propagation
  • Uncertainty budget
  • dimensional analysis
  • Linear models
  • Factorial design