Biostatistics, Fall 2017

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Course Information

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Course Schedule and Materials

• Aug 29, 2017: Descriptive and Summary Statistics
• Sep 5, 2017: Introduction to The Tidyverse
• Sep 12, 2017: Introduction to Probability
• Sep 19, 2017: Probability Distributions and Introduction to Statistical Inference
• Sep 26, 2017: Introduction to Hypothesis Testing and Comparing Means
• Oct 3, 2017: Testing Proportions
• Oct 10, 2017: Nonparametric tests and tidyr
• Oct 17, 2017: Resampling statistics and multiple testing
• Oct 24, 2017: Linear Modeling I
• Oct 31, 2017: Linear Modeling II and Logistic Regression
• Nov 7, 2017: Model Selection and Validation
• Nov 14, 2017: Principal Components Analysis and Clustering
• Nov 28, 2017: Grabbag: Regular Expressions and Introduction to RNAseq

Assignments

• Final Project (due 12/12/17 by 11:59 pm OR 12/19/17 by 7:45 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • Read carefully: Instructions
  • Example Final Project, RMarkdown
  • Example Final Project, HTML
• Homework 12 (due 11/28/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • Download wine.csv
  • NOTE: Throughout the assignment, consider "Cultivar" as categorical (i.e. remove it from PCA and clustering algorithms).
• Homework 11 (due 11/14/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • Download bodyfat.csv
  • Download mammogram.csv
• Homework 10 (due 11/7/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • Download pima.csv
• Homework 9 (due 10/31/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • Download rowan.csv
• Homework 8 (due 10/24/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • All datasets are included in this zip file: Download homework8_datasets.zip
• Homework 7 (due 10/17/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • All datasets are included in this zip file: Download homework7_datasets.zip
• Homework 6 (due 10/10/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • Download sparrows.csv
• Homework 5 (due 10/03/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • Download mammalian_life_history.csv
• Homework 4 (due 9/26/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
• Homework 3 (due 9/19/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • Download damselfly_source.csv
  • Download damselfly_size.csv
  • Download biopsy.csv
• Homework 2 (due 9/12/17 by 5:30 pm)   RMarkdown   HTML
  • Download sparrows.csv
• Homework 1 (due 9/5/17 by 5:30 pm)   PDF
  • Download sparrows.csv