Memo Date:
Thursday, January 23, 2014
To:
College of Computing & Informatics
From:
Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: December 18, 2013
Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Committee
Implementation Date: Summer 2014
Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Committee
Implementation Date: Summer 2014
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BINF 2121. Statistics for Bioinformatics. (3) Pre- or corequisite: BINF 1101. Prerequisite: BINF 2111 [Introduction to Bioinformatics Computing] and Satisfactory completion of either MATH 1103, MATH 1120, MATH 1121, MATH 1241, STAT 1220, STAT 1221, STAT 2122, or permission of instructor based on sufficient demonstration of foundational mathematics concepts. Concepts from probability, stochastic processes, information theory, and other statistical methods will be introduced and illustrated by examples from molecular biology, genomics and population genetics while exploring the use of the R and Bioconductor software for biostatistical analysis. (Spring)