1. Introduction to Biostatistics
What biostatistics is, why biological data needs its own statistical toolkit, and the core methods — descriptive statistics, inference, and hypothesis testing — that every biotechnology student must know.
What biostatistics is, why biological data needs its own statistical toolkit, and the core methods — descriptive statistics, inference, and hypothesis testing — that every biotechnology student must know.
How probability theory models biological randomness — genetic inheritance, mutation, disease spread — and how descriptive statistical measures (mean, median, SD) summarize biological data.
A manager's guide to the core statistical toolkit — descriptive statistics, probability distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and regression — used to make data-driven business decisions.
How predictive modeling works in business analytics: regression, decision trees, random forests, and neural networks, with a worked Python example and guidance on evaluating and validating models.
How biostatistics is applied across biotechnology — genetic engineering, clinical trials, epidemiology, bioinformatics, and manufacturing quality control — with worked examples.
A guide to data mining in business analytics covering descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, clustering, classification, and association rule learning, with a Python illustration and the CRISP-DM process.