Workshop details
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7-Day Workshop on Biostatistics for Life Sciences
About the Workshop
This workshop introduces essential biostatistics concepts and tools for analyzing biological data. Participants will learn descriptive and inferential statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, and data visualization, with hands-on exercises using R programming.
Who Can Join
Life science students, researchers, clinicians, and anyone involved in biological data analysis.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of biology and mathematics. No prior statistics or programming experience required.
Day 1: Introduction to Biostatistics and Data Types
- Role of statistics in biological research
- Types of data: qualitative, quantitative, categorical, continuous
- Data collection and study design basics
- Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode)
- Measures of dispersion (variance, standard deviation, IQR)
- Graphical representation: histograms, boxplots, scatter plots
- Basic probability concepts
- Common distributions in biology (normal, binomial, Poisson)
- Understanding p-values and significance
- Null and alternative hypotheses
- Types of errors (Type I and II)
- t-tests, chi-square tests, and non-parametric tests
- Correlation coefficients and interpretation
- Simple linear regression
- Model fitting and assumptions
- One-way and two-way ANOVA
- Factorial designs and interaction effects
- Multiple comparison tests
- Introduction to multivariate analysis and logistic regression
- Survival analysis basics
- Participant project presentations
- Discussion on applying biostatistics in research