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Set Theory, Logic, and Probability: The Integration of Qualitative Reasoning into Teaching Statistics for Quantitative Biology

Chenshu Liu
Ruijun Zhu

Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032

Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032

Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP) and MedPrep, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032

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Ruijun Zhu

Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032

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Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-06-0184

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Vol. 15, No. 4

December 01, 2016

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© 2016 C. Liu and R. Zhu. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2016 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

This work was supported by a fund from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to C.L. in conjunction with the Statistics for Quantitative Biology summer course at Columbia University Medical Center from 2014 to 2015. The authors thank D. Mowshowitz (Columbia University) for insight on teaching.

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