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