1 Introduction

This is part of the practical for Module 1 - Essentials of Mathematics and Statistics part of the MSc Bioinformatics at the University of Birmingham.

This website hosts all practicals for Module 1, which covers:

  • Linear regression
  • Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
  • Multivariate Regression
  • Generalised Linear Models

1.1 How to use these resources

Section 2 covers some basic concepts on using R and Rstudio. You should have already covered it, but this is a refresher.

Section 3 contains a link to one of the locations you can download the data from.

The sections after that contain the content of the practical we will go through.