72549 - Statistics for Biology

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Docente: Simone Giannerini
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: SECS-S/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Simone Giannerini (Modulo 1) Lucia Modugno (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Molecular and industrial biotechnology (cod. 8022)

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at providing the basics of probability theory and statistical inference with applications in Biology.

Course contents

Parte I:

  • Introduction to Statistics
  • Visualizing data
  • Describing data
  • Point estimation
  • Confidence intervals
  • Probability: basic notions
  • Hypothesis testing
Parte II
  • Inference for proportions
  • Contingency tables
Parte III
  • The Gaussian distribution
  • Inference for a Gaussian population
  • Comparing the means of Gaussian populations
  • Violations of the assumptions
  • Experimental design (DOE): basics
  • The analysis of variance (ANOVA)
  • Introduction to regression models
Parte IV
  • Further topics
  • Laboratory classes at the PC

Readings/Bibliography

  • Michael C. Whitlock , Dolph Schluter: ANALISI STATISTICA DEI DATI BIOLOGICI - Zanichelli. Edizione italiana a cura di Giorgio Bertorelle, 2010, pp. 464 - Brossura, ISBN: 9788808062970
  • Simone Giannerini: slides

Assessment methods

Written examination

Links to further information

http://www2.stat.unibo.it/giannerini/

Office hours

See the website of Simone Giannerini

See the website of Lucia Modugno