Informatics and Statistics for Biotechnologies

This course is composed by two tightly integrated units (modules). The main learning objective of the course is to enable students to design and perform statistical tests using a computer. To this end lessons belonging to the Computer science and Statistics modules are structured according to weeks comprising a Computer science lesson, a Statistics lesson, and a lab session realizing all the topics covered by the Statistics lesson using the R language for statistical computing.

The student is expected to be able to understand pros and cons of the statistical methods presented during the course and to plan and carry out statistical tests using the R programming language. In addition, he is also expected to be able to clearly present the results of the aforementioned tests by using the graphic functionalities offered by the R language.