Statistics for Masters Students, Summer Semester 2011
Prof. Dr. Dirk Metzler
Room D00.013
From May 2 to July 11: Every Monday from 1:15 pm to 2:45 pm. Exception: No
class on on June 13 (holiday).
From May 23 to May 27: Every day from 9 am to 5 pm.
The exam will take place on Tuesday, July 12, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the
grand lecture hall. Participants can bring non-programmable pocket calculators
an their personal assortment of formulas on an A4 sheet. This A4 can have any contents on both
sides BUT ONLY IN YOUR OWN HANDWRITING! (no copy, not print-out, not another
person's handwriting)
1. Descriptive Statistics (slides)
2. Standard Error (slides)
3. Basics from Stochastics (slides)
4. t-test
(slides, more slides)
5. Rank-sum Tests (slides)
6. Chi-square test (slides)
5. Confidence Intervals; Freqentistic and
Bayesian Statistics (slides)
6. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) (slides)
7. Linear Regression (slides)
sheet1.pdf, swarth1.txt
sheet2.pdf, sem_cll.R
sheet3.pdf
sheet4.pdf, desertpoppies.txt
sheet5.pdf
sheet6.pdf
sheet7.pdf
sheet8.pdf, catfish.txt, cuckoo.txt
sheet9.pdf, 800m.csv, qqnorm_exerc_13.pdf, qqnorm_exerc_14.pdf
Examples of R commands:
R_intro.R,
FinchesSulloway.txt, swarth1.txt
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D. Freedman, R. Pisani, R. Purves: Statistics (4. Ed.), Norton
(2007)
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P. Dalgaard: Introductory Statistics with R,
Springer (2008)
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M. J. Crawley: Statistics: an introduction using R,
Wiley and Sons (2005)
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A.F. Zuur, E.N. Ieno, N.J. Walker, A.A. Saveliev, G.M. Smith: Mixed
Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R, Springer (2009)
Last Change: Dirk Metzler, July 6, 2011