Courses

Biostatistics

Current Topics in Biostatistics Research

Course 140.860 · JHSPH

Features presentations by Biostatistics faculty, postdocs, and senior students on their research, with a focus on the public health and scientific questions driving the work and how to translate findings into practice. Offers an opportunity for discussion of key Biostatistical concepts and their application to novel research questions in public health and science.

Genomics

Statistics for Genomics

Course 140.673 · JHSPH

Introduces statistical genomics with an emphasis on next-generation sequencing technologies, including single-cell sequencing, microbiome sequencing, and bulk RNA-seq. Covers the Bioconductor ecosystem and key statistical concepts for critically evaluating the bioinformatics literature: preprocessing, normalization, batch effects, statistical inference, and multiple comparisons. Some familiarity with R is assumed.