Students will learn basic and advanced techniques in biostatistics, they will perform exercises with data from ecological experiments. Specifically, the following topics will be introduced: linear, Poisson, and Binomial regression; AIC, BIC, model selection, and model averaging; random effects and mixed effects models; correlation structure (e.g., time series, spatial, phylogeny). This course is given biennially and alternates with Biostatistics II - multivariate analysis.