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.

Exam

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)

Handouts or slides

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)

Exercises

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

The R statistics software

Examples of R commands: R_intro.R, FinchesSulloway.txt, swarth1.txt

Literature


Last Change: Dirk Metzler, July 6, 2011