Brown University Center for Computational Molecular Biology

APMA 1080: Statistical Inference in Genomics and Molecular Biology

  • APMA 1080: Statistical Inference in Genomics and Molecular Biology
    Instructor: Charles Lawrence
    Tuesday, Thursday 9:00–10:20 a.m. (H Hour)
    Effective 2009: Tuesday, Thursday 10:30–11:50 a.m. (I Hour)

    Traditional and Bayesian statistical inferences on biopolymer data including: sequence alignment; structure prediction; regulatory signals; significances of searches; phylogeny; and functional genomics. Emphasis is on discrete high dimensional objects common in field. Statistical topics: parameter estimation; hypothesis testing and false discovery rates; statistical decision theory; and Bayesian posterior inference.
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