Advanced & Applied Topics · Computational Biostatistics & Genomics

Computational biostatistics — descriptive and inferential analysis

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Introduction

What this guide covers

A rigorous and mathematical reference of inferential methods, advanced descriptive, survival and computational resampling algorithms for health sciences.

Overview

Topics covered

  • Introduction
  • Computational Biostatistics: Descriptive and Inferential Analysis
  • The Paradigm of Computational Biostatistics
  • Multidimensional Descriptive Analysis and Robust Metrics
  • 2.1 M-Estimators and Robust Localization
  • 2.2 Robust Measures of Dispersion and Scale

Related concepts

Main connections

  • Survival analysis & Kaplan-Meier
  • Maximum likelihood estimation
  • Variance & standard deviation
  • Non-parametric tests
  • Permutation & exact tests
  • Multiple testing & FWER/FDR

Compatible notation

Mathematical sample in LaTeX

The expression is rendered accessibly, with its LaTeX source preserved below.

Remp(δ)=1n∑i=1nL(yi,δ(𝐱i))+λΩ(δ)
View LaTeX sourceR_{\text{emp}}(\delta) = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n L(y_i, \delta(\mathbf{x}_i)) + \lambda \Omega(\delta)