Biostatistics

The course aims to introduce students to biostatistics, i.e. the application of statistical principles to questions and problems in genomics, biology or medicine.

At the end of this class , the students are expected to:

- know basic techniques and tools for the synthetic and graphical analysis of the information provided by clinical data sets
- apply the methods and techniques of biostatistics to real data sets by means of the use of appropriate statistical software.
- know the basic models for the representation and the analysis of random phenomena, with particular focus on genomics problems, and their application
- be able to apply methods and tools of biostatistics and survival analysis
- apply the methods and techniques of biostatistics to real data sets by means of the use of appropriate statistical software.