Time & Place

Mondays & Thurs: 4:00PM - 5:25PM, GITC 2315C

Teaching Staff

Instructor: Zhi Wei, Office Hours: Mondays & Thurs 2:00pm-3:30pm or by appointment, GITC 3801, email: zhiweiXnjit.edu, phone: (973) 642-4497
Teaching Assistant: TBA

Textbooks

“Using R for Introductory Statistics”, by John Verzani, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2004, ISBN 1584884509

“Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics: An Introduction” by Ewens WJ and Grant G, the Springer Press, 2005, ISBN 0387400826

Announcements:

Aug 29: the first class is scheduled on Sept 1, please find course slides, lab exercise and homework from Moodle.

Course Information: Description, Prerequisites, Requirements, Collaboration

General

• "Antedisciplinary" Science: a commentary on the birth of computational biology

R resources

• Beginners should print out the R Reference Card
• The R-FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions on R)
• A rather terse introduction to R online (PDF version )
• As a Bioinformatics major, you should really look at the Bioconductor package, a set of freely available biologically useful statistical tools