Table of Contents

Introduction. Statistical modeling. Statistics and probability. Multiple testing. Multivariate statistics and parameter estimation. Clustering. Distance-based. Gaussian mixture models. Simple linear regression. Multiple regression and generalized linear models. Regularization. Linear classification. Non-linear classification. Evaluating classifiers and ensemble methods. Correlated data in one dimension. Hidden-Markov models. Local regression.

About the Author

Alan M Moses is currently Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Computational Biology in the Departments of Cell & Systems Biology and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research touches on many of the major areas in computational biology, including DNA and protein sequence analysis, phylogenetic models, population genetics, expression profiles, regulatory network simulations and image analysis.