BIN517 STATISTICAL LEARNING FOR BIOINFORMATICS

Course Code:9080517
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (3.00 - 0.00)
ECTS Credit:8.0
Department:Bioinformatics
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Graduate
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Offered Semester:Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives


Course Content

This course covers key concepts in statistical learning, specifically regression, classification, resampling methods, linear model selection, regularization; moves beyond linearity; explores tree-based methods, support vector machines, deep learning, survival analysis, unsupervised learning, and multiple testing. Course provides all these concepts and showcase them through Jupyter notebooks, which allow to run Python code. This course is comprehensive in terms of statistical learning methods it covers and focused on the applications of these methods in Python.


Course Learning Outcomes