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Lessons

  • 0. Preparing computing resources for the course
  • 1. The cycle of science
  • 2. Version control with Git
  • 3. Introduction to Python
  • 4. Style
  • 5. Test-driven development
  • 6. Exploratory data analysis
  • 7. Data storage and sharing
  • 8. Data wrangling
  • 9. Intro to probability
  • 10. Overplotting
  • 11. Dashboards
  • 12. Plug-in estimates and confidence intervals
  • 13. Random number generation
  • 14. Probability distributions
  • 15. Null hypothesis significance testing
  • 16. Nonparametric inference with hacker stats
  • 17. Parametric inference
  • 18. Maximum likelihood estimation
  • 19. Model assessment
  • 20. Regression
  • 21. Reproducible workflows
  • 22. The paper of the future
  • 23. Mixture models
  • 24. Implementation of model assessment
  • 25. Statistical watchouts

Recitations

  • R1. The command line
  • R2. Git/Github tips and traps
  • R3. Time series and data smoothing
  • R4. Manipulating data frames
  • R5. Intro to image processing
  • R6. Probability review
  • R7. Topics in bootstrapping
  • R8. Wild and residual bootstrap
  • R9. Packaging and package management

Homework

  • 0. Configuring your team
  • 1. Practice with Python
  • 2. Exploratory data analysis I
  • 3. Exploratory data analysis II
  • 4. Dashboards
  • 5. Random number generation and probability distributions
  • 6. Nonparametric hacker stats
    • Homework 6.1: Confidence intervals for microtubule catastrophe (50 pts)
    • Homework 6.2: Hacker stats with Darwin’s finches (35 pts)
    • Homework 6.3: Bootstrapping theory with… bootstrapping! (15 pts)
  • 7. Parametric inference
  • 8. Maximum likelihood estimation
  • 9. Model comparison
  • 10. Course feedback

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6. Nonparametric hacker stats¶

  • Homework 6.1: Confidence intervals for microtubule catastrophe (50 pts)
  • Homework 6.2: Hacker stats with Darwin’s finches (35 pts)
  • Homework 6.3: Bootstrapping theory with… bootstrapping! (15 pts)
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Last updated on Aug 29, 2021.

© 2020 Justin Bois and BE/Bi 103 a course staff. With the exception of pasted graphics, where the source is noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0. All code contained herein is licensed under an MIT license.

This document was prepared at Caltech with financial support from the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center.



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