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Welcome I work on Statistics education and statistical research. My main research area is Statistical genomics, or bioinformatics. Publication list and Curriculum Vitae
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Statistics Statistics is the science of data: designing how to collect data, exploring data, and drawing conclusions from data. All data reflect truth with systematic and random error. When data are collected by the science, they will properly represent the truth. And when data are explored by the science, they will be interpreted correctly.Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disreaeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Autobiography, Mark Twain ... so we need statisticians. |
Bioinformatics In addition to complete genome of various species, databases with genomic scale annotations are being built. Biologists and clinicians now often measure genome-wide data using various types of microarrays. Bioinformatics, or statistical genomics, is a research field about methodologies for explorative analysis of genomic data. Often computational or statistical methodologies predict biological findings and further experiments validate them. In one collaboration, we identified molecular markers for differentiation of astrocytic cells in mice brain (PNAS, 2004). Now we are working on molecular studies of in vivo mouse brain development, and human brain meningioma. Statistical methodologies that I tackled in genomic studies are: resampling-based clustering algorithm, supervised feature selection, gene-set analysis, and cis-regulatory analysis. |
People Jonathan Legare (2008.8~) Jonathan is a master student. We are
working on analysis of data from Worcester public highschool science education. Statistical topics include unsupervised factor analysis, supervised factor analysis, and regression. Richard Yanicky (2007.3~) Richard is a master student. We are working on analysis of human meningioma with comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) arrays and expression arrays. Mei Jin (2007.11~) Mei is a new PhD student. We are working on general topics of bioinformatics. Alumni Ruijuan Guo (2007.5~) Ruijuan is a master student. We are working on the low-level analysis of illumina expression arrays. Qing Hu (2007.1~2007.05) Qing is now at Esurance after earning her master's degree. We worked on adapting and applying L1 regularization procedure to select covariates and shrink estimates in regression analysis. |
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Ryung S. Kim, Assistant Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute 100 Institute road, Worcester, MA 01609 Stratton Hall 305D: Office hours 508-831-5321 (Phone) 508-831-5824 (Fax) E-mail: rkim at wpi |