It's more focused on how to analyze existing biological data with the shell, R, and how to use git.
Personally, I've rarely seen advanced machine learning being used outside of genome-wide association studies, and even there most people just use PLINK's logistic regression without understanding what's being done and call it a day.
Another really good book on how to understand statistics is Motulsky's Intuitive Biostatistics - it introduces all common "tests" and methodologies people working in the life sciences use, but without the formulas (you use R for that anyway). It's more about the caveats of each test, in which situation you'd use it, what can go wrong, how to interpret the results etc., all written in a very lively style.
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It's more focused on how to analyze existing biological data with the shell, R, and how to use git.
Personally, I've rarely seen advanced machine learning being used outside of genome-wide association studies, and even there most people just use PLINK's logistic regression without understanding what's being done and call it a day.
Another really good book on how to understand statistics is Motulsky's Intuitive Biostatistics - it introduces all common "tests" and methodologies people working in the life sciences use, but without the formulas (you use R for that anyway). It's more about the caveats of each test, in which situation you'd use it, what can go wrong, how to interpret the results etc., all written in a very lively style.