University of Virginia

Statistical Bioinformatics Group

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

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Statistical Bioinformatics in Medicine (PHS795, Fall 2007)

'07 Course syllabus

Project guideline and references

Lecture Notes (L: regular, S: special topic lectures):
L1. Introduction
L2. Basic conceps in statistics
L3. Quality control and statistical assement on large screening data
L4. False discovery rate (FDR) & Statistical tests for genomic data
L5. Unsupervised learning (hierarchical, SOM, K-means clustering)

L6. Principal component analysis
L7. Supervised learning (LDA, QDA, LR, SVMs)
L8. Statistical resampling
L9. Boolean and Bayesian belief networks
L10. Markov chain Monte Carlo and WinBUGS
L11. Neural network analysis

S1. Human genome project and RNA expression microarray technology
S2. Introduction to Healthcare Informatics (Invited lecture by Dr. James Harrison)
S3. R Basics Presentation (Guest lecture by Dr. Paul Williams)