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HarvardX: PH525.1x Statistics and R for the Life Sciences

Week 1 : Introduction

  • Using Rstudio
  • R programming skills
  • Getting organized

Week 2 : Probability Distributions

  • Introduction to random variables
  • Introduction to the null distribution
  • Probability distributions
  • The normal distribution

Week 3 : Inference

  • t-tests
  • The Central Limit Theorem
  • Association tests
  • Monte Carlo methods
  • Permutation tests
  • Power

Week 4 : Exploratory Data Analysis and Robust Summaries

  • Exploratory data analysis
    • histogram
    • QQ-plot
    • boxplot
    • scatterplot
    • log transformation
  • Robust summaries
    • Median, MAD and Spearman correlation
    • Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test

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