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Course Outline
I. Introduction and Preliminaries
1. Overview
- Making R more accessible: R and available Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
- RStudio
- Related software and documentation resources
- The relationship between R and statistics
- Interactive use of R
- An introductory session
- Obtaining help for functions and features
- R commands, case sensitivity, and related conventions
- Recalling and correcting previous commands
- Executing commands from files or redirecting output to files
- Data persistence and removing objects
- Best practices in programming: creating self-contained scripts, ensuring readability (e.g., structured scripts, documentation, markdown)
- Installing packages; understanding CRAN and Bioconductor
2. Reading Data
- Text files (using read.delim)
- CSV files
3. Basic Manipulations; Numbers, Vectors, and Arrays
- Vectors and assignment operations
- Vector arithmetic
- Generating regular sequences
- Logical vectors
- Handling missing values
- Character vectors
- Index vectors: selecting and modifying subsets of a dataset
- Arrays
- Array indexing and accessing subsections
- Index matrices
- The array() function and simple operations on arrays (e.g., multiplication, transposition)
- Other object types
4. Lists and Data Frames
- Lists
- Constructing and modifying lists
- Concatenating lists
- Data Frames
- Creating data frames
- Working with data frames
- Attaching arbitrary lists
- Managing the search path
5. Data Manipulation
- Selecting, subsetting observations and variables
- Filtering and grouping
- Recoding and transformations
- Aggregation and combining datasets
- Forming partitioned matrices, using cbind() and rbind()
- The concatenation function with arrays
- Character manipulation using the stringr package
- Introduction to grep and regexpr
6. Additional Data Reading Techniques
- XLS and XLSX files
- readr and readxl packages
- SPSS, SAS, Stata, and other data formats
- Exporting data to txt, csv, and other formats
7. Grouping, Loops, and Conditional Execution
- Grouped expressions
- Control statements
- Conditional execution: if statements
- Repetitive execution: for loops, repeat, and while
- Introduction to apply, lapply, sapply, and tapply
8. Functions
- Creating functions
- Optional arguments and default values
- Handling variable numbers of arguments
- Scope and its implications
9. Simple Graphics in R
- Creating a Graph
- Density Plots
- Dot Plots
- Bar Plots
- Line Charts
- Pie Charts
- Boxplots
- Scatter Plots
- Combining Plots
II. Statistical Analysis in R
1. Probability Distributions
- R as a repository of statistical tables
- Examining the distribution of a dataset
2. Hypothesis Testing
- Tests regarding a Population Mean
- Likelihood Ratio Test
- One- and two-sample tests
- Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
- Kolmogorov-Smirnov One-Sample Statistic
- Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
- Two-Sample Test
- Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test
- Mann-Whitney Test
- Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test
3. Multiple Hypothesis Testing
- Type I Error and False Discovery Rate (FDR)
- ROC curves and AUC
- Multiple Testing Procedures (Benjamini-Hochberg, Bonferroni, etc.)
4. Linear Regression Models
- Generic functions for extracting model information
- Updating fitted models
- Generalized Linear Models (GLMs)
- Families
- The glm() function
- Classification
- Logistic Regression
- Linear Discriminant Analysis
- Unsupervised Learning
- Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
- Clustering Methods (k-means, hierarchical clustering, k-medoids)
5. Survival Analysis (using the survival package)
- Survival objects in R
- Kaplan-Meier estimate, log-rank test, parametric regression
- Confidence bands
- Analysis of censored (interval censored) data
- Cox PH models with constant covariates
- Cox PH models with time-dependent covariates
- Simulation: Model comparison (Comparing regression models)
6. Analysis of Variance
- One-Way ANOVA
- Two-Way Classification of ANOVA
- Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)
III. Worked Problems in Bioinformatics
- Short introduction to the limma package
- Microarray data analysis workflow
- Data download from GEO: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE1397
- Data processing (Quality Control, normalization, differential expression)
- Volcano plots
- Clustering examples and heatmaps
28 Hours
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