Applied Biostatistics for Bioinformatics

(3 Credits)

This online course will introduce the basics of statistics and its applications in various fields of biology. It will lean towards practical applications, allowing for an intuitive understanding of concepts and some rigor in the application of statistics. It will use R for all the programming exercises. The course will not be requiring a lot of programming, and the requisite skills will be introduced in the lectures. The problems, exercises and assignments will be drawn from real-life problems in research papers and books. The student should be able the initiate and solve problems in the field at the end of the course. Students enroll into this course should have knowledge of basics of programming, probability and statistics.