Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Statistics

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): STAT 305 OR STAT 310 OR STAT 331

Description: PROBABILITY IN BIOINFORMATICS AND GENETICS ***** Advances in computers and biotechnology have had an immense impact on the biomedical fields, with broad consequences for humanity. Correspondingly, new areas of probability and statistics are being developed specifically to meet the needs of this area. This course also describes some of the main statistical applicaitons in the field, including gene finding and evolutionary inference. ***** Prerequisite(s): STAT 305 or 310 or 331, or permission of instructor.