Scuola di Dottorato in Biologia e Medicina Molecolare

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4-5, 16-17 June 2025

9:00am - 1:00pm

Città universitaria

Ed. Fisiologia generale e Antropologia CU026

E01PS1L101 Aula I multimediale

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Statistics for Biologists

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Prof. Mario Fordellone

Dip. di Salute Mentale e Fisica e Medicina Preventiva�Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

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Prof. Valerio Licursi

Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari (IBPM-CNR)

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Link to register: https://forms.gle/fNrtSUsg4qz1Q97Z8

Registration deadline: 28/05/2025

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Info: valerio.licursi@uniroma1.it

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Course program

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Module I (4, 5 June) : “Practice sessions”

• Intro to R and RStudio
• Basic R syntax and data structure: access to elements (vectors, lists,
• dataframes)
• Data handling and visualisation

o explore and manipulate data in R with tidyverse

o use the R package ggplot2 to visualize data an create plots

• Hands-on: statistical tests with R on real data

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Module II (16, 17 June): “Theory classes”

• Introduction theory for point estimation, confidence interval, and hypothesis
• testing, Statistical significance, and p-value.
• Tests on normal populations, the case of one sample, two independent
• samples, two paired samples, more than two samples, post-hoc tests.
• Normality hypothesis testing, tests on non-normal populations, the case of two
• independent samples, two paired samples, more than two samples, post-hoc
• tests.
• Nonparametric statistics
• Adjusting for multiple testing
• Basic theory on survival analysis.

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It is recommended that you bring your own laptop with R and RStudio already installed. Please refer to the Instructions for software installation indicated at http://userver.bio.uniroma1.it/courses/biostats2025/

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