Postgraduate Course: Biomedical Data Science (MATH11174)
Course Outline
School | School of Mathematics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | This course will introduce and discuss a large variety of situations that arise in the analysis of biomedical data through examples and assignments carried out in R. Starting from the ground up, we will be building a collection of well-written scripts and functions to perform increasingly sophisticated analyses, with an eye on reproducible research, self-documenting code, correctness of procedure, interpretability of results, and presentation of outcomes of the analysis. |
Course description |
The biomedical setting is rich in opportunities to apply mathematical approaches of different types to the analysis of patient data. These range from routine data collected from national registries, to collections of high-dimensional biomarkers measured via high-throughput techniques, to genetic and sequence data.
Most often the data measured is noisy and fragmented. Moreover, it is more and more likely that the number of observations available is far exceeded by the number of variables and features available. These are important challenges when trying to use data-driven approaches in understanding the data and building predictive models.
The de-facto standard programming language adopted in analysing biomedical data is the free statistical language R. This
provides a flexible way to perform all types of analyses, from the simplest to the most complex, thanks to an extensive collection of packages.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Fundamentals of Optimization (MATH11111)
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Co-requisites | |
Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 40 |
Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
73 )
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Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework 50%, Examination 50%. |
Feedback |
Not entered |
Exam Information |
Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Biomedical Data Science (MATH11174) | 1:30 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Ability to understand setting and complications related to using and analysing biomedical data.
- Ability to discriminate between interpretable and black-box models.
- Ability to manipulate, impute and filter data to setup correctly validated predictive models and construct predictive features.
- Ability to understand and solve difficulties related to using high-dimensional data.
- Ability to write well-written and modular R code.
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Reading List
An introduction to statistical learning, by G. James, D. Witten, T. Hastie and R. Tibshirani.
Introductory statistics with R, by P. Dalgaard. |
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
Special Arrangements |
Priority for this course will be given to students studying relevant masters programmes in the School of Mathematics. Students from other Schools will be admitted if space permits. Please contact Julian Hall. |
Keywords | BDS,biomedical,data science |
Contacts
Course organiser | Mr Marco Colombo
Tel:
Email: M.Colombo@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Frances Reid
Tel: (0131 6)50 4883
Email: f.c.reid@ed.ac.uk |
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