Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Primary groupings

• 06 - Physical and life sciences and technologies
• 26. - Biological and biomedical sciences
• 26.11 - Biomathematics, bioinformatics, and computational biology

26.1101 - Biometry/biometrics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the application of statistics and other computational methods to the study of problems in the biological sciences and related fields in agriculture and natural resources. These programs include courses in computational biology, mathematical statistics, matrix algebra, applied calculus, experimental design, linear modelling, sampling theory, stochastic processes, spatial and temporal analysis, longitudinal analysis, sparse/unbalanced data and complex error, and applications to such topics as population genetics, animal breeding, forest genetics, population dynamics, wildlife biometry, ecology, and agricultural and natural resource management.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • biometrics
  • biometry

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• Exclusion(s)

  • bioinformatics(26.1103)
  • biostatistics(26.1102)
  • mathematical biology(27.0306)