Statistics for Masters Students, Summer Semester 2014

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

Exam

The exam will take place on 14th of July from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in lecture hall B01.019. 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)

Handouts

1. Descriptive Statistics
2. Standard Error
3. Basics from Stochastics
4. t-test
5. Rank-sum Tests
6. Chi-square test
8. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
9. Linear Regression
7. Confidence Intervals; Freqentistic and Bayesian Statistics

Exercises

sheet1.pdf, swarth1.txt
sheet2.pdf, sem_cll.R
sheet3.pdf
sheet4.pdf
sheet5.pdf
sheet6.pdf, desertpoppies.txt
sheet7.pdf
sheet8.pdf, cuckoo.txt
sheet9.pdf,qqnorm_exerc_13.pdf, qqnorm_exerc_14.pdf
sheet10.pdf

Quantile Tables

The R statistics software

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

Literature


Last Change: Dirk Metzler, July 10, 2014