Curricula Guides
2013–2014
Archived Curricula Guide 2012–2013
Curricula Guide is archieved. Please refer to current Curricula Guides
BIO2270
Introduction to Statistics
3
ECTS
Organised by
Master's Degree Programme in Bioinformatics
Person in charge
Juho Heimonen
Corresponding course units in the curriculum
Keywords
Strategic themes:
Internationalisation
Learning outcomes
Students know the basics of statistics. This includes definitions, general principles of conducting a statistical study, and methods of descriptive and analytical statistics. Students will be able to perform a simple statistical analysis, given a study description and observations.
Contents
This course covers basic concepts in statistics, commonly used numerical and graphical methods of descriptive statistics, principles of statistical inference, statistical models, likelihood, point and interval estimators, and statistical tests. The R language is used throughout the course.
Teaching language
EnglishModes of study
Option
1
Available for:
- Degree Programme Students
- Other Students
- Open University Students
- Doctoral Students
- Exchange Students
Participation in course work
In
English
Lectures (28 h), weekly exercises, project work.
Evaluation and evaluation criteria
Pass/fail.Numeric 0-5 available at request.
Further information
Organization responsible: Department of Information Technology, University of Turku
Belongs to following study modules
Institute of Biomedical Technology
2013–2014
Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.
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