Statistics for Masters Students at LMU faculty of biology, Summer Semester 2023

On Tuesdays from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. and on Thursdays from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in room G 00.031.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Metzler

Announcements

Please enrol to the moodle page of the course to obtain all announcements.

Handouts

Material will be added during the course. Please note that the handouts will not form a complete script. They only summarize the contents of the slides shown during the lecture. You will need to complement the handouts with your own notes during the lecture and read text books.
Screen cast videos from the online summer semesters 2020 and 2021 are still accessible on https://evol.bio.lmu.de/_statgen/StatEES/21SS/, but note that the contents of the course can and will be different this year. For this reason, also the handouts below will be updated during the semester.
  1. Descriptive Statistics, bluearea.csv
  2. Standard Error
  3. t-Tests and Wilcoxon's signed rank test, more biological t-test examples, Wilcoxon test application aspects (with biological examples)
  4. Chi-square and Fisher's exact test
  5. Comparing more than two groups: multiple testing issues, ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis
  6. Basics from Stochastics
  7. Linear Regression
  8. Linear Mixed-Effects Models
  9. Generalized Linear Models

Exercises

Solving these exercise problems is an effective way to improve your understanding of the lecture contents. We will discuss your solution during the exercise sessions. Before a particular exercise is discussed in an exercise session, you can already ask questions on the exercises in the moodle forum and give each other some hints, but please make sure that you do not tell too much in the moodle forums, so that all others have the chance to find their own solutions. It is also highly recommended that you sit together and develop exercise solutions in collaboration, but then everyone should in the end write down the solution individually in their own words.
More exercise sheets will be added during the semester.

Quantile Tables

The R statistics software

Examples of R commands: R_intro.R, FinchesSulloway.txt, swarth1.txt
There are several graphical user interfaces for, as for example RStudio.

Videos on the statistics software R

part 1 (duration [min:sec]: 21:08), part 2 (19:04), part 3 (20:27), part 4 (20:12), part 5 (22:17), part 6 (13:34), part 7 (12:25)

Literature


Last Change: Dirk Metzler, 18. July 2023