Statistics for Biologists: 2007

Session 1: Descriptive statistics and introduction to inferential statistics 7th floor classroom

Session 2: Inferential statistics: pairwise comparisons, power, and multiple testing 7th floor classroom

Slides [slide show] [to print]
Exercises for lecture 2 - part 1: Explore the R Commander
Exercises for lecture 2 - part 2: Perform pairwise comparisons, power calculations, and multiple hypothesis testing.

Session 3: Selected biostatistical applications 7th floor classroom

WIBR BaRC help pages

Statistics textbooks on the web

More information and references

R and S resources

The R Project for Statistical Computing: software and lots of documentation
Bioconductor: R packages for the analysis of microarray and other genomic data
Rpad Reference Card for R: a helpful list of commands
Other R reference cards: Baron Short
Getting Started with the R Commander: a graphical interface for learning R
The R Commander: details about individual tools
Introduction to statistical computing in R: course materials by the creater of the R Commander

Links to publications

Storey JD and Tibshirani R.Statistical significance for genomewide studies. PNAS: 100(16):9440-5, 2003.