Statistics

Statistics

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Statistics is indispensable to describe and analyse large data sets, such as those commonly encountered in computational biology. Roughly, three areas apply: descriptive statistics, to describe features of sets of data, inferential statistics, to quantify the significance of observations, and probability theory, to provide the theoretical basis for drawing such inferences. In practice we often apply procedures of Exploratory Data Analysis to find interesting features of our data and devise hypotheses and strategies for its analysis.

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