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Statistics Department

VIGRE

Research

My main themes of research are:

  • Computational Biology, for an introduction to the subject, you can peruse the links and summaries from the course I teach (in 2012 it will be in the Spring): computational statistics in genetics.
  • Computer intensive methods in multivariate statistics, especially the bootstrap. I wrote my thesis on the bootstrap for multivariate analyses. I have a course on the bootstrap, if you are interested here is the web version of the course notes.
  • Phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences. I have several projects linked to this theme in project, much introductory material can be found at the web site of the course I taught at Cornell, here is the material associated Computer Intensive methods in Biology. More recently see my work on using phylogenetics and multivariate statistics to study the microbiome.
  • Multivariate Statistics applied to microarray techniques. I collaborate with several PI's in the medical school on finding differential expression patterns in genes that are important in various diseases. For my analyses, I use the tools made available by the Bioconductor group.
  • I came to the US for the first time in 1989 to teach a course on Computational Statistics,
    a course I have since taught several times and the notes for which you can find here: Computational Statistics.
  •   © 2011 Susan Holmes