- 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
- Inference for proportions
- Contingency tables
- 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
- 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