Syllabus: Biostatistics

This course covers some of the basic and intermediate statistical methods and principles necessary for the analysis and interpretation of biological data.

Descriptive statistics (central tendency and variance); analysis of univariate and multivariate data; probability density and distribution functions; hypothesis testing and group comparison (parametric and nonparametric tests); Experimental design; Linear models and Generalized linear models; types of random data, Fourier transform and its application in image analysis, spectral and correlation analysis;  random error estimates in data measurements. P-values, multiple hypothesis testing and limitations;  power and sample size calculation.

Instructors: Mahesh Sankaran, Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan, Tapomoy Bhattacharjee

Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday  2 to 3:30 Pm

Venue: SAFEDA