BIOM285, Spring 2025

Course director: Kyle Gaulton (kgaulton@ucsd.edu)

Class times: MWF 1:30-2:30 PM, CMM East Room 2047

Office hours: F 2:30-3:30 PM, CMM East Room 1059

Slack: biom285-2025.slack.com
Link to join Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/biom285-2025/shared_invite/zt-31cqtenqu-AilOrbO55Wy3rPwZRyxtMA


Course syllabus:
NOTE: The first day of class is April 7

April 7-11 - Study design in biomedical science, intro to R
April 14-18 - Descriptive statistics, p-values, hypothesis testing April 21-25 - Multiple testing, comparing means
April 28-May 2 - Correlation and regression
May 5-9 - Categorical data
May 12-16 - Generalized linear models, linear mixed models
May 19-23 - Intro to machine learning
May 26-30 - Survey of statistics in BMS (no class Mon 5/26, Kyle out on Fri 5/30)
June 2-6 - Student group presentations

Assignments:
Assignment 1: link

Week 1 - April 7-11

Mon April 7 - slides
Wed April 9 - slides
Fri April 11 - slides | code: DataHub - April_11/

Week 2 - April 14-18

Mon April 14 - slides | code: DataHub - April_14/
Wed April 16 - slides | code: DataHub - April_16/
Fri April 18 - code: DataHub - April_18/

Week 3 - April 21-25

Mon April 21 - slides | code: DataHub - April_21/
Wed April 23
Fri April 25