IBBTU13

Introductory Biostatistics for Bioinformatics Tool Users

Course Timetable
Tue
Mon, Jul 1st
Day #1
09:30 - 10:00 Introduction to the course and self presentation of the participants
10:00 - 11:00 The importance of Statistics.
Quantitative observations. Accuracy and Precision. Observations with error. Chance. Probabilities. Causation.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Descriptive Statistics I
Basic concepts.
Describing and summarizing data. Summary statistics and plots for univariate and bivariate data.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Descriptive Statistics
Exercises I
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Descriptive Statistics
Exercises II
Tue, Jul 2nd
Day #2
09:30 - 11:00 Review of probability theory I
Probability, random variables and their properties.
Independence and conditional probability.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Review of probability theory II
Distributions: discrete random variables and continuous random variables.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Review of probability theory
Exercises III
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Review of probability theory
Exercises IV
Wed, Jul 3rd
Day #2
09:30 - 11:00 Statistical inference I
Sampling distributions.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Statistical inference II
Maximum likelihood estimation.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Satistical inference III
Confidence intervals.
Hypothesis testing (parametric tests).
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Statistical inference
Exercises V
Thu, Jul 4th
Day #4
09:30 - 11:00 Statistical inference
Exercises VI
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Statistical inference IV
Hypothesis testing (non-parametric tests).
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Statistical inference
Exercises VII
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Statistical inference
Exercises VIII
Fri, Jul 5th
Day #5
09:30 - 11:00 Design of experiments I
ANOVA: one-way, two-way, repeated measures.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Design of experiments
Exercises IX
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Design of experiments II
Factorial design. Latin Squares.
Exercises X
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Final wrap-up session
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência,

Apartado 14, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal

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Last updated:   May 30th 2013