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Data Analysis – MoBi Bachelor – WS 2021/2022

Dr. Carl Herrmann carl.herrmann (at) bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Dr. Maiwen Caudron-Herger m.caudron (at) dkfz-heidelberg.de

The purpose of this course is an introduction to basic techniques of scientific data analysis, which every scientist will be confronted with. We will cover:

  • data visualization (plots)

  • descriptive statistics (mean, variance, correlation,…)

  • data exploration and reduction (PCA, clustering,…)

  • inference statistics (P-values, tests,…)

  • data modelling (linear/logistic regression,…)

Each lecture (Thursday) will be followed by a practical session (Friday) under R/RStudio

Reference

Books:

Websites:

Practical information

Lecture slides

Exercises

This is a link to a bundle of exercise sheets from the previous years, together with solutions for most of them. This will help to prepare for the exam

Demos

During the lectures, some demos have been shown. You can find the corresponding Markdown with the code and the output in the following links:

Shiny applets

Shiny makes it possible to build interactive R scripts that can be used using user interface. No programming skills are needed!

For some topics of the lecture, we provide Shiny applets to illustrate some concepts, (hopefully) helping in the understanding: