This space will be used to communicate with students in the Introduction to Biological Statistics Course. Here, you will find copies of lecture materials, exercises and other relevant resources.
An annotated list of Statistics Resources is available on Google Drive.
This course meets Fridays 1-2 pm in UTC 4.122 (note the change of location!). The schedule below indicates the number of seats remaining in each workshop. If you are interested in attending one of the open workshops, please contact Kelly Pierce kellypierce [at] utexas [dot] edu or Nichole Bennett nichole.lynn.bennett [at] gmail [dot] com .
Prerequisite R knowledge assumed for statistics topics lectures:
If you're attending any of the specific statistics topics lectures, we expect that you have a good understanding of the material presented in the first three weeks of class. We also expect that you can do the following in R: access help files for functions, load data, and install R packages. If you need extra practice/instruction in loading data or installing packages, we have the following cheat sheets for you. We assume that you're using Windows or OSX; if you're using Ubuntu or another Linux distribution and are having trouble using R, send us an email and we'll try to help.
Week | Date | Topic | Instructor | Seats Remaining |
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1 | 8/30 | R installation & basic skills | Kelly Pierce | |
2 | 9/6 | Statistics and Probability Refresher | Nichole Bennett | 11 |
3 | 9/13 | Basic R skills, continued | Kelly Pierce & Nichole Bennett | 9 |
4 | 9/20 | Linear models | Nate Pope | FULL |
5 | 9/27 | Linear models; Hierarchical models | James Scott | FULL |
6 | 10/4 | Phylogenetics | April Wright | 40 |
7 | 10/11 | Bayesian modeling | Keegan Hines | FULL |
8 | 10/18 | Bayesian modeling, continued | Mike Daniels | FULL |
9 | 10/25 | Dimension reduction | Genevieve Smith & Emma Moran | 12 |
10 | 11/1 | Time series analysis | Jeanette Mumford | FULL |
11 | 11/8 | Spatial statistics | Jennifer Miller | 7 |
12 | 11/15 | Population genetics | Liz Milano | 25 |
13 | 11/22 | Advanced R topics | Sean Maguire | FULL |
14 | 12/6 | Advanced R topics | Roz Eggo | FULL |