Statistics for Masters Students, Summer Semester 2013
Prof. Dr. Dirk Metzler
Room C00.013
Every Monday from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm.
Every Thursday from 5:30 pm to 6:15 pm, sometimes to 7 pm.
guidelines.pdf
The exam will take place on 18th of July from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in room
G00.001. You will have 90 minutes to answer the questions.
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)
7. Confidence Intervals; Freqentistic and
Bayesian Statistics (slides)
8. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) (slides)
9. Linear Regression, (slides)
10. Recapitulation (only slides)
sheet1.pdf, swarth1.txt
sheet2.pdf, sem_cll.R
sheet3.pdf
sheet4.pdf
sheet5.pdf
sheet6.pdf, desertpoppies.txt
sheet7.pdf,
sheet8.pdf,
sheet9.pdf,
sheet10.pdf
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 16, 2013