Instructor Notes

The lesson is based on the HarvardX Biomedical Data Science series, part of which is published as the book Data Analysis for the Life Sciences (Irizarry & Love, 2016). You can use the following resources to prepare for teaching and can share them with learners so that they can review or learn more.

• HarvardX Biomedical Data Science Open Online Training includes links to course video and book chapters.
• A PDF of Data Analysis for the Life Sciences is available on a sliding scale (from $39.95 to free) from Leanpub.
• Print copies of the book are available at CRC Press.

Introduction

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Inference

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Populations, Samples and Estimates

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Central Limit Theorem and the t-distribution

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Central Limit Theorem in practice

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t-tests in practice

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Confidence Intervals

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Power Calculations

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Monte Carlo simulation

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Permutations

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Association tests

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Exploratory Data Analysis

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Plots to avoid

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