Boot Camp in Quantitative Methods at Harvard Medical School

The goals of this camp are to introduce you to programming in the MATLAB environment and to show you the power this provides for analyzing data and for gaining intuition about the behavior of complex systems through the use of numerical simulations. The first two days will cover basics of programming intermixed with some image analysis and statistical methods for analyzing data. The third day will focus on statistics. The fourth day will focus on image analysis and quantitative approaches. The final day will cover more practical aspects of importing real data sets into MATLAB and best practices for organizing data analysis. The course assumes no knowledge of programming, statistics, image analysis, or modeling. The object is to give people a set of practical tools that they can use towards any problem they want to address and to go through examples which both reinforce the different programming concepts and give hands on examples of data processing.