New online course coming in Summer 2018! (2/22/2018)

Post date: Feb 22, 2018 8:02:25 PM

Dr. Yan Zhang will instruct a 3-credit online course in Summer 2018:

BMI 5750 – Methods in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Course description: This six-week course educates trainees in practical biomedical informatics, study design, statistical analysis, and computational techniques related to biomedical research. The course will provide applied primers covering foundational biomedical informatics and quantitative science methods employed in the design, conduct, and analysis of basic science, clinical, and translational research programs. This survey course is intended to enable individuals to critically select such methods and evaluate their results as part of both the design of new projects as well as the review of results available in the public domain (e.g., literature, public data sets, etc.). Core concepts to be reviewed during this course include:

• Basic computational skills (R programming)
• Data integration (data transformation / merging / manipulation, metadata integration)
• Basic probability (conditional probability, Bayes theorem, probability distributions, sampling distributions)
• Study design principles (population and sample selection, study design principles)
• Exploratory analysis of data (graphical displays of data, data summarization)
• Statistical analysis of data (estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression, two-group tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA), survival analysis)
• Power and sample size calculations
• In silico hypothesis generation (data mining, text mining, and visualization)
• Introduction to data and methods in bioinformatics (clustering, classification, RNA-seq data analysis)

Course registration is open now.