Statistical Inference

Author

Eva Freyhult

Preface

This repository contains teaching and learning materials prepared and used during “Introduction to biostatistics and machine learning” course, organized by NBIS, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden. The course is open for PhD students, postdoctoral researcher and other employees within Swedish universities. The materials are geared towards life scientists wanting to be able to understand and use basic statistical and machine learning methods. More about the course https://uppsala.instructure.com/courses/93277/

Learning outcomes

to define null and alternative hypothesis
to perform a hypothesis test using resampling
to perform a t-test
to understand and define sampling distribution and standard error
to compute standard error of mean and proportions
to compute confidence interval of mean and proportions using the normal approximation
to compute confidence interval of mean using the t-distribution