BIO8102B: Advanced Applied Biostatistics

Syllabus

Lecture slides

1. Intro to GLM (1): Doing everyting in regression: Numerical illustration
2. Doing multi-way ANOVA and ANCOVA in regression: SS1, SS3, Model selection Numerical illustration + Intro to R
3. GLM with categorical and continuous independent variables: same slope (ANCOVA) or different slopes
4. Common mistakes in statistical inference involving more than one independent variable. Lecture slides
5. The least-square principle in regression and beyond (and a briefing on the maximum likelihood method): PPT, Intro_LS_LM.xlsx, RegAbsDeviationBootstrap.xlsx, and LS_ML_Goodness_of_fit.xlsx
6. Multiple regression, and Stepwise regression
7. Non-linear regression
8. Student requested topic: phylogeny-based comparative method
9. Student requested topic: Spatial statistics (1)
10. Student requested topic: Spatial statistics (2)
11. Multiple regression, and Stepwise regression
12. Polynomial regression and transformation in regression
13. Non-linear regression
14. Multivariate statistics Pincipal Component Analysis, Linear Discrimination Function Analysis, Cluster Analysis, MANOVA and Canonical correlation (optional)
15. Categorical data analysis

R and data files

1. Describe.R
2. StatsGroupData.R
3. DarwinPlantBreeding.txt
4. DarwinPlantBreeding.txt
5. ChestData.txt
6. WranglerData.txt
7. Mercury2Gr_A.txt
8. Mercury2Gr_B.txt
9. Mercury3Gr_A.txt
10. RandCompleteBlock.txt
11. TwoWayANOVA.txt
12. DataTransformTwoWayANOVA.txt
13. TwoWayANOVAInteraction.txt
14. ThreeWayANOVA.txt
15. RepeatedMeasures.txt
16. OrganGeneExpression.txt
17. LakeBiomass.txt
18. LakeIronBiomass.txt
19. BartlettTest.txt
20. BeetleWtLoss.txt
21. WasteCost.txt
22. Stepwise.txt
23. poly1.txt
24. ElephantWt.txt
25. Pesticide.txt
26. PowerTransform.txt
27. nlinGESE.txt
28. nlinLogistic.txt
29. AncovaEx1Drug.txt
30. AncovaEx2TeachingEval.txt
31. DiffSlopeMuscle.txt
32. PCAex1.txt
33. Crime.txt
34. MANOVAex1.txt
35. MANOVAex2.txt
36. XYZ.txt
37. Cancor.csv
38. Cancor.txt
39. KidneyStoneLumped.txt
40. KidneyStone.txt
41. HairColor.txt
42. Titanic.txt
43. ThreeD.txt