Topic outline

  • General

    Statistical techniques for genomics/life sciences

    Basel, 9-12 February 2015

    Overview

    This course is designed to provide graduate students in the biomedical sciences with experience in the application of basic statistical analysis techniques to a variety of biological problems.

    Attendees will work through short tutorials on the topics discussed in the class. During the practical exercises students will learn how to work with the widely used "R" language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.

    Topics covered during the course include: reminders about numerical and graphical summaries, and hypothesis testing; multiple testing, permutation and bootstrap, linear models, correlation and regression; cluster analysis; principal component analysis.

    Requirements

    Skill requirements:

    • No prior statistical knowledge is required in order to attend the course. However, this course will be most useful for participants who have already followed a statistics course in the past (even if they don't remember much of it).

    Technical requirements:

    • Participants are asked to bring their own laptop with the "R" program installed (see http://www.r-project.org/ for more information).
      Make sure that your WiFi is enabled and that you can connect to the internet through Eduroam (ask your local administrator if necessary).
    • We strongly recommend that participants get familiar with the R statistical analysis package prior attending the course.
      As the practical exercises will necessitate the use of the R program, you should already be familiar with the command line environment of such tool to avoid spending too much time during the practical exercises with the syntax of the program. Please read some documentation to familiarize yourself with the R language and try some simple examples present in our R tutorial.

    Application

    This course is now full.

    The registration fees for academics are 200 CHF. This includes course content material, coffee breaks and a social dinner. Participants from non-academic institutions should contact us before application.

    Deadline for registration and free-of-charge cancellation is set to the 2nd of February 2014.

    Location and schedule

    Biozentrum, Basel, Room 106
    Directions available here

    The course will take place from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 February, from 9:00 to 17:00 everyday.

    Additional information

    The course will be taught by Charlotte Soneson, PhD and Frédéric Schütz, PhD.

    We will recommend 1 ECTS credit for this workshop (following a short exam at the end of the course)

    You are welcome to register to the SIB courses mailing-list to be informed of all future courses and workshops, as well as all important deadlines using the form here.

    For more information, please contact training@isb-sib.ch.

  • Monday: basic statistics

  • Tuesday: Correlation and linear models

  • Wednesday: Unsupervised methods and resampling

  • Thursday: Categorical data analysis and survival analysis