Lecturers: C. Sala (Fixed-term Researcher, DIFA), D. Remondini (Full Professor, DIFA), G. Castellani (Full Professor, DIMES)
Duration: 24 hours (12 given by C. Sala, 6 by G. Castellani and 6 by D. Remondini) in April and May
Programme:
Part 1
Stochastic processes and probability distributions
Master equation and Fokker Planck equation
Modeling of spatial patterns and spatial statistics
Part 2
Multi-parametric methods and dimensionality reduction techniques (PCA, SVD, etc.)
Pattern Recognition
Part 3
Parametric and Nonparametric hypothesis tests
The p-value: statistical significance, bias and inflation
Linear regression models. Random effect and mixed-effect models
Batch effect, data normalization and harmonization
Meta-analysis
Simulations and implementation of some of the discussed methods in R