[R] Online course: DNA Microarray Data Analysis starts Jan. 28

[Peter C. Bruce]

Prof. Javier Cabrera will be giving the online course "DNA Microarray Data 
Analysis" from Jan. 28 - Feb. 25 at statistics.com.  Dr. Cabrera is 
co-author of "Exploration and Analysis of DNA Microarray and Protein Array 
Data" (the course text; Wiley) and has published a number of articles on 
gene expression data analysis, data mining and multivariate methods in 
leading statistics journals. This online course covers data preprocessing, 
replication, data reduction, distance measures, clustering, supervised and 
unsupervised classification of genes, k-nearest neighbors, neural nets, 
software, more.  R is used.  Participants will have access to a private 
discussion board with the instructor, weekly lessons, exercises and 
solutions.  There are no set hours - participate on a schedule that is 
convenient for you.  Estimated time required is 10+ hours per 
week.  Details and registration at 
http://www.statistics.com/content/courses/microarray/index.html

Peter Bruce
statistics.com