Topic outline

  • Introduction to Statistics

    Zurich, 22-25 January 2019

    University of Zurich, Irchel campus,Winterthurerstrasse 190, building Y34 room J-02

    This page is addressed to registered participants. To access course description and application form, please click here.

    For any assistance, please contact training@sib.swiss.


  • Schedule

    The course will start at 10:30 on 22 Jan and at 9:00 the following days, and end around 17:00 every day. There will be two coffee breaks and a lunch break of one hour every day.


    22 January

    • Exploratory data analysis
    • Hypothesis tests
    • T-test and assumptions
    • Parametric and non-parametric groups comparison

    23 January

    • Hypothesis tests - continuous
    • ANOVA 
    • Multiple testing: FDR, FWER

    Evening

    • Social dinner

    24 January

    • Regression
    • Correlation 

    25 January

    • Data representation, clustering and PCA