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I. Introduction and Preliminaries

1. Overview

  • Making R more accessible: R and available GUIs
  • RStudio
  • Related software and documentation
  • R and statistics
  • Using R interactively
  • An introductory session
  • Getting help with functions and features
  • R commands, case sensitivity, etc.
  • Recalling and correcting previous commands
  • Executing commands from or redirecting output to a file
  • Data persistence and removing objects
  • Good programming practices: Self-contained scripts, readability (e.g., structured scripts, documentation, markdown)
  • Installing packages: CRAN and Bioconductor

2. Reading Data

  • Text files (read.delim)
  • CSV files

3. Simple Manipulations: Numbers, Vectors, and Arrays

  • Vectors and assignment
  • Vector arithmetic
  • Generating regular sequences
  • Logical vectors
  • Missing values
  • Character vectors
  • Index vectors: selecting and modifying subsets of a data set
    • Arrays
  • Array indexing: Subsections of an array
  • Index matrices
  • The array() function and simple operations on arrays (e.g., multiplication, transposition)
  • Other types of objects

4. Lists and Data Frames

  • Lists
  • Constructing and modifying lists
    • Concatenating lists
  • Data Frames
    • Creating data frames
    • Working with data frames
    • Attaching arbitrary lists
    • Managing the search path

5. Data Manipulation

  • Selecting, subsetting observations and variables
  • Filtering and grouping
  • Recoding and transformations
  • Aggregation and combining data sets
  • Forming partitioned matrices: cbind() and rbind()
  • The concatenation function, c(), with arrays
  • Character manipulation using the stringr package
  • Introduction to grep and regexpr

6. Advanced Data Reading

  • XLS and XLSX files
  • readr and readxl packages
  • SPSS, SAS, Stata, and other data formats
  • Exporting data to TXT, CSV, and other formats

6. Grouping, Loops, and Conditional Execution

  • Grouped expressions
  • Control statements
  • Conditional execution: if statements
  • Repetitive execution: for loops, repeat, and while
  • Introduction to apply, lapply, sapply, and tapply

7. Functions

  • Creating functions
  • Optional arguments and default values
  • Variable number of arguments
  • Scope and its consequences

8. Basic Graphics in R

  • Creating a graph
  • Density plots
  • Dot plots
  • Bar plots
  • Line charts
  • Pie charts
  • Boxplots
  • Scatter plots
  • Combining plots

II. Statistical Analysis in R

1. Probability Distributions

  • R as a set of statistical tables
  • Examining the distribution of a data set

2. Hypothesis Testing

  • Tests concerning a Population Mean
  • Likelihood Ratio Test
  • One- and two-sample tests
  • Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
  • Kolmogorov-Smirnov One-Sample Statistic
  • Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
  • Two-Sample Test
  • Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test
  • Mann-Whitney Test
  • Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test

3. Multiple Hypothesis Testing

  • Type I Error and False Discovery Rate (FDR)
  • ROC curves and AUC
  • Multiple Testing Procedures (BH, Bonferroni, etc.)

4. Linear Regression Models

  • Generic functions for extracting model information
  • Updating fitted models
  • Generalized Linear Models (GLM)
    • Families
    • The glm() function
  • Classification
    • Logistic Regression
    • Linear Discriminant Analysis
  • Unsupervised Learning
    • Principal Components Analysis
    • Clustering Methods (k-means, hierarchical clustering, k-medoids)

5. Survival Analysis (survival package)

  • Survival objects in R
  • Kaplan-Meier estimate, log-rank test, parametric regression
  • Confidence bands
  • Censored (interval-censored) data analysis
  • Cox PH models with constant covariates
  • Cox PH models with time-dependent covariates
  • Simulation: Model comparison (comparing regression models)

6. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

  • One-Way ANOVA
  • Two-Way Classification of ANOVA
  • MANOVA

III. Worked Problems in Bioinformatics

  • Short introduction to the limma package
  • Microarray data analysis workflow
  • Data download from GEO: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE1397
  • Data processing (Quality Control, normalization, differential expression)
  • Volcano plot
  • Clustering examples and heatmaps
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