Introduction to Biostatistics

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Free Online Course: Introduction to Biostatistics provided by Swayam is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 8 weeks long. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Swayam.

Overview
  • Observations from biological laboratory experiments, clinical trials, and health surveys always carry some amount of uncertainty. In many cases, especially for the laboratory experiments, it is inevitable to just ignore this uncertainty due to large variation in observations. Tools from statistics are very useful in analyzing this uncertainty and filtering noise from data. Also, due to advancement of microscopy and molecular tools, a rich data can be generated from experiments. To make sense of this data, we need to integrate this data a model using tools from statistics. In this course, we will discuss about different statistical tools required to(i) analyze our observations,(ii) design new experiments, and(iii) integrate large number of observations in single unified model.INTENDED AUDIENCE : BE Biotech/Biosciences/Bioengineering,MSc Biotech/Bio sciences/Bioengineering, PhD Biotech/Biosciences/Bioengineering. It is taught as a core course for M. Tech Biomedical Engineering students at IIT Bombay.PRE-REQUISITES : Basic knowledge of 12th standard mathematics is sufficient.INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Biotech companies, pharma companies and omics companies may be interested in this course.

Syllabus
  • Week 1:Lecture 1. Introduction to the course
    Lecture 2. Data representation and plotting
    Lecture 3. Arithmetic mean
    Lecture 4. Geometric mean
    Lecture 5. Measure of Variability, Standard deviation
    Week 2:Lecture 6. SME, Z-Score, Box plot
    Lecture 8. Kurtosis, R programming
    Lecture 9. R programming
    Lecture 10. Correlation
    Week 3:Lecture 11. Correlation and Regression
    Lecture 12. Correlation and Regression Part-II
    Lecture 13. Interpolation and extrapolation
    Lecture 14. Nonlinear data fitting
    Lecture 15. Concept of Probability: introduction and basics
    Week 4:Lecture 16. counting principle, Permutations, and Combinations
    Lecture 17. Conditional probability
    Lecture 18. Conditional probability and Random variables
    Lecture 19. Random variables, Probability mass function, and Probability density function
    Lecture 20. Expectation, Variance and Covariance
    Week 5:Lecture 21. Expectation, Variance and Covariance Part-II
    Lecture 22. Binomial random variables and Moment generating function
    Lecture 23. Probability distribution: Poisson distribution and Uniform distribution Part-I
    Lecture 24. Uniform distribution Part-II and Normal distribution Part-I
    Lecture 25. Normal distribution Part-II and Exponential distribution
    Week 6:Lecture 26. Sampling distributions and Central limit theorem Part-I
    Lecture 27. Sampling distributions and Central limit theorem Part-II
    Lecture 28. Central limit theorem Part-III and Sampling distributions of sample mean
    Lecture 29. Central limit theorem - IV and Confidence intervals
    Lecture 30. Confidence intervals Part- II
    Week 7:Lecture 31. Test of Hypothesis - 1
    Lecture 32. Test of Hypothesis - 2 (1 tailed and 2 tailed Test of Hypothesis, p-value)
    Lecture 33. Test of Hypothesis - 3 (1 tailed and 2 tailed Test of Hypothesis, p-value)
    Lecture 34. Test of Hypothesis - 4 (Type -1 and Type -2 error)
    Lecture 35. T-test
    Week 8:Lecture 36. 1 tailed and 2 tailed T-distribution, Chi-square test
    Lecture 37. ANOVA - 1
    Lecture 38. ANOVA - 2
    Lecture 39. ANOVA - 3
    Lecture 40. ANOVA for linear regression, Block Desig

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