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HU Credits:
3
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Life Sciences
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English and Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Liran Carmel
Coordinator Office Hours:
by email
Teaching Staff:
Prof Liran Carmel
Ms.
Course/Module description:
The course teaches statistical techniques that are relevant to the biological research.
Course/Module aims:
Providing students with statistical techniques that are highly useful in Biological research.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Apply the appropriate statistical analyses required in their particular research.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures + frontal exercises
Course/Module Content:
1. Estimators: point estimators, properties of estimators, basic estimators, maximum-likelihood estiamtors, the method of moments.
2. Bootstrapping.
3. ANOVA test, post-hoc tests.
4. Ranked statistics: U-test, Wilcoxon test and related tests.
5. Multiple comparisons: Bonferroni, FDR
6. Permutation tests.
7. Dimensionality reduction: PCA, t-SNE.
8. Classification and logistic regression.
More topics if time permits: multiple linear regression, Analysis of contingency tables: hypergeometric test, Fischer exact test, Markov models and its applications in Biology.
Required Reading:
None
Additional Reading Material:
Zar, Biostatistical Analysis, 5th edition
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 80 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 20 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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