20 – Additional topics

under construction — add brief descriptions

Introduction

Biostatistics covers a wide variety of applied topics. This final chapter contains brief annotations and R script for the following additional topics:

  • 20.1 – Area under the curve
  • 20.2 – Peak detection
  • 20.3 – Baseline correction
  • 20.4 – Surveys
  • 20.5 – Time series
  • 20.6 – Cluster analysis
  • 20.7 – Estimating population size
  • 20.8 – Diversity indexes
  • 20.9 – Survival analysis
  • 20.10 – Growth equations and dose response calculations
  • 20.11 – Plot a Newick tree
  • 20.12 – Phylogenetically independent contrasts
  • 20.13 – How to get the distances from a distance tree
  • 20.14 – Binary classification

Chapter 20 contents

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