Archive for December, 2009

Biostatistics of cigarette smoking

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Stay away from smoking!  This is my analysis of the GSE5056 dataset from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO).  The dataset is part of a study aimed at understanding how cigarette smoking modifies neuroendocrine cells. By comparing the smokers to the non-smokers, it’s possible to see very clear trends using statistical methods despite the enormous amount of gene data.

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