Statistics for Masters Students, Summer Semester 2012

Prof. Dr. Dirk Metzler
Room D00.013
Every Monday from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm.
Every Thursday from 5:30 pm to 6:15 pm, sometimes to 7 pm. Exception: no class on June 25.
guidelines.pdf

Exam

The exam resit will take place on Thursday, September 27, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in lecture hall B01.019. 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)
7. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) (slides)
8. Linear Regression

Exercises

sheet1.pdf, swarth1.txt
sheet2.pdf, sem_cll.R
sheet3.pdf
sheet4.pdf
sheet5.pdf
sheet6.pdf, desertpoppies.txt
sheet7.pdf, qqplots.pdf, moreqqplots.pdf
sheet8.pdf, cuckoo.txt

The R statistics software

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

Literature


Last Change: Dirk Metzler, September 25, 2012