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Math 283  —  Fall 2019
Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
Calendar

Updated 12/7/19


Note: This calendar is approximate and is subject to revision.
Chapter numbers are for the class textbook by Ewens & Grant.
Slides are posted in advance for most lectures, but are subject to revision.

Discussion Sessions with T.A. George Armstrong (dates TBA)
Week 2 Wednesday October 9, 4:30-5:50 p.m. in AP&M B402
  • Tutorial on Matlab and R. Worksheets: Matlab, R
Week 5 or 6 Thursday, October 31, 3:00-3:50pm in AP&M 6402
Week 7 or 8 TA review cancelled, added more linear algebra review to lecture instead
Week 10 or 11 Friday December 6, 3-3:50 p.m. in AP&M 6402
Lectures: Week 1
Mon. Sep. 30 Website and syllabus
 
Review of discrete random variables: (slides 1-27) [revised 10/3]
  • Probability density functions (Sec. 1.2)
  • Joint pdf (2.1, 2.2, 2.5)
  • Conditional pdf (2.6)
  • Combinations and permutations
  • Mass spec
  • Binomial (1.3.2) and multinomial (2.4.2) distributions
Wed. Oct. 2
  • continued (slides 28-)
  • Expected values (1.4) and Variance (1.5)
  • Geometric distribution (1.3.5) and Negative Binomial Distribution (1.3.6)
Week 2
Mon. Oct. 7 Mendel's Laws and Gene mapping:
  • Note that there are two sets of slides to download for today's lecture.
  • Mendel's Laws, crossovers and recombination rates, Haldane's Mapping Function (slides)
  • Poisson distribution and crossovers (Ewens & Grant 1.3.7, 4.1-4.2) (slides) [revised 10/13]
  • For now, skip slides 23-end on the Exponential and Gamma Distributions; we will cover these topics later.
     
Wed. Oct. 9 Lander-Waterman shotgun sequencing statistics (5.1) (slides) [revised 10/13]
 
Conditional Probability and Bayes' Theorem (slides 4-16)
Week 3
Mon. Oct. 14
  • Bayes' Theorem continued (review + slides 17-24)

Continuous distributions: (slides 1-26) [revised again 10/14]
  • Continuous distributions (1.8-1.10, 4.3)
  • Uniform distribution
  • Cumulative distribution function
  • Exponential and gamma distributions (1.10, 4.3)
Wed. Oct. 16
  • continued (rest of slides)

Maximum Likelihood Estimates (8.1-8.3) (slides)

Normal distribution and Central Limit Theorem (1.10, 2.10): (slides 1-10) [revised 10/13]
  • Normal distribution
  • Approximating binomial distribution by normal distribution
Week 4
Mon. Oct. 21
  • continued (rest of slides)
  • Central Limit Theorem

Hypothesis testing, intro: (slides 1-12)
  • Distribution of the maximum of n random variables (2.11)
  • Long repeats (5.4) and hypothesis tests (3.4)
Wed. Oct. 23
  • continued (review + slides 13-20; delaying slides 23-24)

Hypothesis tests for the normal distribution: (slides 1-19)
  • z and t-tests for the mean of a normal distribution (3.5.1-3.5.2)
  • Confidence intervals (3.3.2)
Week 5
Mon. Oct. 28
  • continued (rest of slides)
  • Binomial tests for p
  • Choosing n to control Type I and Type II errors. Also the delayed slides 23-24 from the previous set of slides.

Non-parametric hypothesis tests: (slides 1-4)
  • Probability generating functions intro (1.7, 1.11, 2.3)
  • Wilcoxon signed rank test (3.8.3)
  • Mann-Whitney test (3.8.2)
Wed. Oct. 30
  • Non-parametric hypothesis tests, continued (rest of slides)

Week 6
Mon. Nov. 4 Microarrays (slides 1-36) [revised 11/4]
Wed. Nov. 6 Midterm
Week 7
Mon. Nov. 11 Veterans Day
Wed. Nov. 13 Microarrays, continued (rest of slides)

Chi-squared hypothesis tests: (slides 1-17)
  • Chi-squared (1.10.5) and F-tests (9.5.2) for variance.
Week 8
Mon. Nov. 18
  • Chi-squared tests for goodness-of-fit (3.5.4) and association (3.5.5) (rest of slides)

Frequencies of words:
  • Number of occurrences of a word (5.7) and a motif (5.9) allowing overlaps (slides)

Wed. Nov. 20 Linear Algebra Review:
Markov chains (4.5-4.9, 11.{1,2,4,6}):
Week 9
Mon. Nov. 25
  • Markov chains, continued (8-32)
Wed. Nov. 27
  • Markov chains, continued (rest of slides)

Principal Components Analysis: (slides 1-20)
Week 10
Mon. Dec. 2
  • PCA, continued (rest of slides)

Linear Regression (8.4.3): (slides 1-5)
Wed. Dec. 4
  • Linear regression, continued (rest of slides)

Analysis of Variance (9.5-9.7, 13.3.7): (slides)
  • This is included some years, but we probably will not have time for it.
Week 11
Fri. Dec. 13 Final exam, 3-6 p.m.