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Loengukursused -> Matemaatiline statistika ja modelleerimine


Mathematical statistics and modelling
[Matemaatiline statistika ja modelleerimine]

(DK.0007; 5 EAP; spring; E)
EMÜ Doctoral School


Course info

Lectures Practicals Exam Links

TIME & PLACE: spring 2011 (March 3 - April 29):

lectures on Thursdays 1215-14 Kreutzwaldi 5, 2A12.
practicals on Fridays 915-13 (group A) and 1315-17 (group B) Kreutzwaldi 5, 2A10.

TOPICS:

  • Data managing and databases
  • Descriptive statistics, frequency tables, diagrams
  • Theoretical distributions
  • Population and sample, parameters' estimation, accuracy of estimates
  • Confidence and tolerance interval
  • Hypothesis testing, statistical significance
  • Comparison of means
  • Relationships between variables - description and testing (correlation analysis, chi-square test, Fisher exact test)
  • Regression analysis, analysis of variance
  • General linear models (reparametrisation, contrasts, repeated measures, fixed and random factors)
  • Analysis if binary traits (logistic and probit regression, odds ratio, ROC analysis)
  • Power analysis, sample size calculation
  • Multivariate statistics (principal components analysis, cluster analysis, ...)
  • Statistics in scientific papers
  • Software MS Excel and R.