BIFX 503 Statistics for Bioinformatics

Prerequisite: Admission to the Certificate or MS in Bioinformatics. Lab fee. This course will focus on the statistical concepts that are used in biology and medicine to analyze and validate data. Topics will include probability, hypothesis testing, tests for variables (e.g. chi-square, Fisher’s test), t-test, linear and multivariate regression, covariance and Bayesian statistic.