CSU Group Study

Modern Statistics for Modern Biology

Spring 2020

Thursdays, 3:00–5:00 PM

Weber 223H

Graduate-level group study at Colorado State University covering the text Modern Statistics for Modern Biology by Susan Holmes and Wolfgang Huber

Skills

Biology

Programming

Statistics

People

Faculty

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Bailey Fosdick

Assistant Professor of Statistics

Statistical Methods for Network Data, Models for Multiway Data, Bayesian Statistics, Methods for Survey Analysis, Applications in the Social and Biological Sciences

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Brooke Anderson

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Environmental Epidemiology, Climate-related Disasters, R Programming

Students

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Sherry WeMott

Graduate Student in Environmental Health, Epidemiology

environmental impacts on chronic disease, health equity, infectious disease transmission and susceptibilty

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Amy Fox

Graduate Student in Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology

R programming, Bioengineering, Traveling, Puzzles

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Mikaela Elder

Undergraduate Student in Biochemistry with Statistics Minor

Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Molecular mechanisms of disease

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Burton Karger

Laboratory Manager and Research Associate in MIP

Microbiology, Computer Programming, Skiing

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Camron Pearce

Graduate Student in Cell and Molecular Biology

Skiing, Running Marathons, Traveling

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Sarah Cooper

Graduate Student in MIP

M. tuberculosis immunology, Histopathogy image analysis, Learning to code

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Daniel Dean

Graduate Student in Agriculture and Biology

Soil Microbiome, R programming, Data visualization, Data Science

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Sere Williams

Graduate Student in Cellular and Molecular Biology

Plant Genetics, RNA Biology, Science Communication

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Sierra Pugh

Graduate Student in Statistics

Bayesian statistics, Spatial statistics

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Zach Laubach

Morris Animal Foundation Postdoc Fellow

Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Plasticity, Genomics, Life Course Methods in Epidemiology

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James DiLisio

Graduate Student in Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology

Immunotherapy, Infectious disease, Immunometabolism

Recent Posts

Exercise Solution for Chapter 6

Chapter 6, Exercise 6.4 Make a less extreme example of correlated test statistics than the data duplication at the end of Section 6.5. …
Last updated on May 13, 2020 8 min read Chapter 6, exercises

Exercise Solution for Chapter 11

To begin, we want to load (or download) the packages we will need for this exercise using library: library(tidyverse) # …
Last updated on May 12, 2020 11 min read Chapter 11, exercises

Exercise Solution for Chapter 12

Exercise 12.2 from Modern Statistics for Modern Biologists Use glmnet for a prediction of a continous variable, i.e., for regression. …
May 12, 2020 11 min read Exercise solutions, Chapter 12

Details for class on May 14

Links for May 14 We are looking forward to hearing about everyone’s exercise solutions today! Please plan for about 10 minutes to talk …
Last updated on May 8, 2020 1 min read class meeting

Details for class on May 7

Last updated on May 7, 2020 1 min read class meeting
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Schedule

 
 
 
 
 

Chapter 1

Generative Models for Discrete Data

– Feb. 6, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 1.8, p. 17

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Chapter 2.1–2.7

Statistical Modeling (part 1)

– Feb. 13, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 2.3, p. 50

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Chapter 2.8–2.12

Statistical Modeling (part 2)

– Feb. 20, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 2.6, p. 51

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Chapter 4

Mixture Models

– Feb. 27, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 4.3

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Chapter 5

Clustering

– March 5, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 5.1

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Chapter 6

Testing

– March 12, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 6.4 (p. 159)

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Chapter 7

Multivariate Analysis

– April 2, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 7.4 (p. 189)

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Chapter 8

High-Throughput Count Data

– April 9, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 8.1 (p. 216)

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Chapter 9

Multivariate Methods for Heterogeneous Data

– April 16, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 9.2 (p. 246), Correspondence analysis on color association tables

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Chapter 10

Networks and Trees

– April 23, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: 10.8 (p. 277) (Starts with “Compare the use of…")

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Chapter 11

Image Data

– April 30, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Read in the data from Section 11.15. Conduct the analyses for spatial dependence (11.17) using different cell types than those used in the book's code.

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Chapter 12

Supervised Learning

– May 7, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: Exercise 12.2 (p. 335), starts with “Use glmnet…”

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Chapter 13

Design of High Throughput Experiments and their Analyses

– May 14, 2020

Exercise for Chapter: None

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Location

  • Weber 223H, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521
  • Enter Weber from the southern entrance. Take the stairs, turn left, and follow the first hallway on the left to the last classroom on the left.
  • Thursdays 3:00 to 5:00 PM

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