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Assessment: References:
Continuous Assessment: 40% 1. Adriaans, P., & Zantige, D. (1996). Data mining.
Final Examination: 60% Addison-Wesley.
2. Hand, D., Mannila, H., & Smyth, P. (2001). Principles of
Medium of Instruction: data mining. MIT Press.
English 3. Cios. K. J. et al. (2010). Data mining: A knowledge
discovery approach. New York: Springer-Verlag
Soft Skills:
CS3, CTPS3
SIT3011 BIOINFORMATICS
References:
1. Scheaffer, R. L. (2006), Elementary survey sampling Statistical modelling of DNA/protein sequences:
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(6 ed.). Duxbury. Assessing statistical significance in BLAST using the
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2. Thompson, S. K. (2002), Sampling (2 ed.). Wiley. Gumbel distribution; DNA substitution models; Poisson and
3. Lohr, Sharon L. (2010). Sampling: Design and analysis negative binomial models for gene counts; Hidden Markov
(2 ed). Cengage Learning. Model.
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4. Cochran, W. (1977). Sampling techniques (3 ed.).
Wiley. Algorithms for sequence analysis and tree construction:
Dynamic programming for sequence alignment and Viterbi
decoding; neighbour-joining, UPGMA, parsimony and
SIT3009 STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL maximum likelihood tree-building methods.

Methods and philosophy of statistical process control. Analysis of high-dimensional microarray / RNA-Seq
Control charts for variables and attributes. CUSUM and gene expression data: Statistical tests for detecting
EWMA charts. Process capability analysis. Multivariate differential expression, feature selection, visualization, and
control charts. Acceptance sampling by attributes and phenotype classification.
variables.
Assessment:
Assessment: Continuous Assessment: 40%
Continuous Assessment: 40% Final Examination: 60%
Final Examination: 60%
Medium of Instruction:
Medium of Instruction: English
English
Soft Skills:
Soft Skills: CS3, CTPS3
CS3, CTPS3
References:
References:
1. D. C. Montgomery. (2009). Introduction to statistical 1. Jones, N.C., & Pevzner, P.A. (2004). An introduction to
quality control (6 ed.). Wiley. bioinformatics algorithms. Massachusetts: MIT Press.
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2. R. S. Kenett, & S. Zacks. (1998). Modern industrial 2. Durbin, R., Eddy, S., Krogh, A., & Mitchison, G. (1998).
statistics: Design and control of quality and reliability. Biological sequence analysis: Probabilistic models of
Duxbury Press. proteins and nucleic acids. Cambridge: Cambridge
3. A. J. Duncan. (1986). Quality control and industrial University Press.
statistics (5 ed.). Irwin. 3. Ewens, W.J., & Grant, G.R. (2005). Statistical methods
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in bioinformatics: An introduction (2 ed.). New York:
Springer.
SIT3010 INTRODUCTION TO DATA MINING 4. Pevsner, J. (2009). Bioinformatics and functional
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genomics (2 ed.). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Description: Introduction to statistical methods and tools for
analysis of very large data sets and discovery of interesting
and unexpected relationships in the data. SIT3012 DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS

Data preprocessing and exploration: data quality and data Philosophy related to statistical designed experiments.
cleaning. Data exploration: summarizing and visualizing Analysis of variance. Experiments with Blocking factors.
data; principal component, multidimensional scaling. Data Factorial experiments. Two level factorial designs. Blocking
analysis and uncertainty: handling uncertainty; statistical and confounding system for two-level factorials. Two-level
inference; sampling. fractional factorial designs.

Statistical approach to data mining and data mining
algorithms: Regression, Validation; classification and Assessment:
clustering: k-means, CART, decision trees; Artificial Neural Continuous Assessment: 40%
Network; boosting; support vector machine; association Final Examination: 60%
rules mining. Modelling: descriptive and predictive
modelling. Data organization. Medium of Instruction:
English
Assessment:
Continuous Assessment: 40% Soft Skills:
Final Examination: 60% CS3, CTPS4
Medium of Instruction:
English References:
1. Montgomery, D.C. (2004). Design and analysis of
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Soft Skills: experiments (6 ed.). John Wiley.
CS3, CTPS3

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