Statistics for Bioinformatics - 605.657

This course provides an introduction to the statistical methods commonly used in bioinformatics and biological research. The course briefly reviews basic probability and statistics including events, conditional probabilities, Bayes theorem, random variables, probability distributions, and hypothesis testing and then proceeds to topics more specific to bioinformatics research, including Markov chains, hidden Markov models, Bayesian statistics, and Bayesian networks. Students will learn the principles behind these statistical methods and how they can be applied to analyze biological sequences and data. Prerequisite(s): EN.605.205 Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists or equivalent, and AS.410.645 Biostatistics or another statistics course.