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Syllabus: Applied Statistics for High-Throughput Biology with Applications to Single-cell Sequencing

Instructor

Levi Waldron, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
City University of New York School Graduate of Public Health and Health Policy
New York, NY, U.S.A.

Email: lwaldron.research@gmail.com

Summary

This course will provide biologists and bioinformaticians with practical statistical and data analysis skills to perform rigorous analysis of high-throughput biological data, with applications focused on single-cell sequencing. The course assumes some familiarity with genomics and with R programming, but does not assume prior statistical training. It covers the statistical concepts necessary to design experiments and analyze high-dimensional data generated by genomic technologies, including: exploratory data analysis, linear modeling, analysis of categorical variables, principal components analysis and other dimension reduction methods, multiple hypothesis testing, and batch effects.

Textbooks

Labs

Each day will include a hands-on lab session from Orchestrating Single-Cell Analysis with Bioconductor, that students should attempt in full.

Session detail by day

Lecture materials are available in HTML format from https://waldronlab.io/AppStatBio/.

  1. Introduction
  1. Dimensionality reduction
  1. Linear modeling
  1. Exploratory data analysis and batch effects