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Nope, PhD in bioinformatics here and never took a single (formal) statistics course. There was Statistics I required for my undergrad, which I AP'ed out of by r
by xaa 11y ago
Nope, PhD in bioinformatics here and never took a single (formal) statistics course. There was Statistics I required for my undergrad, which I AP'ed out of by reading the book for a few hours. Nothing whatsoever in grad school. It's horrible and badly needs to be change.
I've had to do a lot of extracurricular statistics to get up to speed but a disturbingly large portion of people don't. People generally know t-tests and maybe ANOVA, and that's about it. Of course they don't know any of the theory behind it and often just apply t-tests to everything, even when inappropriate.