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+[![Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.](https://www.repostatus.org/badges/latest/active.svg)](https://www.repostatus.org/#active) [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.10833704.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10833704)
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+## Principles of Experimental Design
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+In these three episodes we will cover some principles of experimental design and their impact on your downstream statistical analysis:
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+- Platform availability and choice
+- Replication and controls
+- Sequence coverage and depth
+- Statistical concepts including type I and type II errors, multiple testing and multiple testing correction.
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+The module is designed for a 2 - 3 hour workshop. 
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+The Statistically useful experimental design module comprises 3 GitHub repositories:
+1. [The Overview repository](https://github.com/Cloud-SPAN/experimental_design00-overview) for webpages at https://cloud-span.github.io/experimental_design00-overview/
+2. [Principles of experimental design](https://github.com/Cloud-SPAN/experimental_design01-principles) for webpages at https://cloud-span.github.io/experimental_design01-principles/
+3. [Case Studies in Experimental Design](https://github.com/Cloud-SPAN/experimental_design02-case-study) for webpages at https://cloud-span.github.io/experimental_design02-case-study/
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+The site infrastructure is based on [The Carpentries](https://carpentries.org/)
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+## About Cloud-SPAN
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+Cloud-SPAN is a collaboration between the [Department of Biology, University of York](https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/) and [The Software Sustainability Institute](https://www.software.ac.uk/) funded by the UKRI innovation scholars award (Project Reference: [MR/V038680/1](https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgtr.ukri.org%2Fprojects%3Fref%3DMR%252FV038680%252F1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF0nsozFp-1kvcp0Dgjks6kY8CiCQ)) which trains researchers, and the research software engineers that support them, to run specialised analyses on cloud-based high-performance computing infrastructure
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