We motivate least squares by trying to figure out how many wheel rotations we need for a programmable robot to travel exactly one meter. Note you can extend this lesson to include an application of...
Rafael Irizarry (http://rafalab.jhsph.edu/) sits down with John McGready to discuss the relevance of statistics in all research scenarios, with a focus on microbiology and genomics. Rafa is a pro...
I explain the mathematical concept of distance. Then k-means and hierarchical clustering are described. Genotyping from SNP chips and gene expression profiles are used as examples.
I briefly explain the biology of DNA methylation, CpG Islands and measurement technology (microarrays and sequencing). I also go over some of recent results made possible with these technologies.
The need for normalization is motivated and the solutions are described. Specifically, quantile normalization and loess normalization are described in some detail.
I motivate and describe the normal+exponential model used by RMA to background correct microarray intensities. I also describe the sequence based correction used by GCRMA
In this video (recorded live in class) Ben Langmead gives an introduction to short read alignment. He starts with a short introduction of the technology. Ben is the developer of Bowtie and many oth...
In this video (recorded live in class) I give a brief introduction to next generation sequencing. I describe the technology and some of its applications. In a related video Ben Langmead will explai...
We describe the probe effect and potential pitfalls if you ignore it. We also describe the basic ideas behind the gene expression barcode. Towards the end we show how probe effects affect SNP array...
We describe several key functions: read.csv, rowMeans, subsetting with "[", for example. This video was recorded live in class and at the beginning I give an example of an editor with special feat...
In this lecture I introduce the basics of statistical inference. Gene expression data is used as an illustrative example. I define t-tests and p-values.
This video give a brief introduction to empirical Bayes using baseball as an example. Then we describe a little bit of the math behind the methods used my limma. For a basic intro to inference see ...