Biostatistics I

Biostatistics I

About

The purpose of this course is to give the students an overview of statistical methods and to provide a foundation for data analysis in bio-medical research. Special attention is given to practical application of statistical methods to bio-medical data. The course includes 30 hrs of lectures and 30 hrs of directed practice exercises. The course is organized by BSc program, University of Luxembourg and given by Dr Petr Nazarov

Place & Date

• Webex: https://mylih.webex.com/meet/petr.nazarov
• 8:00-12:00 on Fridays, February - May, 2021

Materials

The materials of the course are freely available online. Go to the lecture materials:

• L.1. Data presentation and descriptive statistics

• L.2. Discrete probability distribution

• L.3. Continuous probability distribution

• L.4. Sampling and sampling distribution

• L.5. Interval estimations for mean and proportion

• L.6. One-sample tests of hypotheses about means and proportions

• L.7. Hypothesis about means and proportions of two populations

• L.8. Inferences about population variance. Goodness of fit and independence

• L.9. Correction for multiple testing

• L.10. Analysis of variance (ANOVA)

• L.11. Linear regression

• L.12. Non-parametric methods

• L.13. Introduction to data analysis in transcriptomics

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Links

Software

• R-cran - install R.
• RStudio - install RStudio.

References

These books, especially the first one, are strongly recommended.

• Statistics for Business and Economics Anderson, Sweeney, Williams. See also ed.11th at academia.edu or the latest version on Amazon.
• An Introduction to Biostatistics by Glover and Mitchel.
• Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences by Chernick and Friis.
• Introductory Biostatistics by Chap.

And here are some resources for R programming:

• R Cheat Sheets by RStudio.
• R Reference Card - classical.
• R Tutorial

by Petr Nazarov