STAMPS 2022

This repository contains the StatDivLab's teaching materials for STAMPS 2022!

This repo is under development, but will be updated with more teaching materials by Sunday 22 July.

The "plan"

All mealtimes and breaks

• Introduce yourselves to us! Tell us about your data! Ask us your questions!

Sunday 9-noon

Lecture: Statistics Bootcamp

• Key concepts in statistics for microbial ecology
  • Populations and samples
  • Estimators; bias & variance
  • Regression modeling
  • Hypothesis testing
• A lot of content and framing that we will use in upcoming lab material
• Exercises for you to in small groups

Sunday 2-5

Lecture: Estimation and modeling

• Choosing a question
• Abundance
  • Relative (lecture + lab)
  • Absolute-from-Relative (lecture + lab)
• Diversity
  • Alpha (lecture + lab)
  • Beta (lecture)
• Misc

Sunday 7+

• more time to follow up on

Friday 9-noon (TBC)

• Statistics for shotgun data
  • gene presence/absence
  • abundance
  • richness (TBC)
  • comparing experimental protocols