Courses Details

BIOSTAT866: Advanced Topics in Genetic Modeling

• Graduate level
• Residential
• Winter term(s) for residential students;
• 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
• Instructor(s): Hyun Min Kang (Residential);
• Prerequisites: Biostat 601, Biostat 602, Biostat 666 or Perm. Instr.
• Description: Advanced topics in quantitative genetics with emphasis on models for gene mapping, pedigree analysis, reconstruction of evolutionary trees, and molecular genetics experiments, computational mathematics, and statistical techniques such as Chen-Stein Poisson approximations, hidden Markov chains, and the EM algorithm introduced as needed.
• Syllabus for BIOSTAT866