Statistics and Data Analysis
A course run within TIB PAN PhD School
Lectures
- Probability distributions and moments
- Central tendency and spread measures
- Dependence and correlations
- Data analyst's toolbox
- Hypothesis testing
- Design of experiments
- Consolidated standards for reporting trials
- Bootstrap
- Inductive method
- Regression as optimization
Practicals
- Central measures, code.
- Introduction to R: code, CSV file.
- Estimator properties: task, spreadsheet template; solution: code, filled table.
- Correlations: task; solution: Task 1 (scatterplots), Task 2 (correlations).
- Autocorrelation: task; solution: code.
- Image processing with robust statistics: task; snippet: code; solution: code.
- Fixing CSV formatting: task; solution: regular expressions.
- Statistical tests (simulations): task; solution: code.
- Statistical tests (CEC data): task; solution: code.
- Power analysis: task; solution: code.
- Formulating a statistical task: a case study on depression monitoring.
- Text processing: task; solution: code.
- Non-linear regression for missing data: task; solution: code.
- Computing the accuracy of quantiles using bootstrap task; solution: code.
- Designing an experiment to compare taste of two liquids task.
Projects (autumn 2023/2024)
The first task is individual while the remaining two are to be done in groups.
- Analysis of a paper describing an RCT according to the CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration document: task. Deadline 2023-12-19.
- Presentations about power analysis. Deadline 2024-01-19.
- Practical data analysis bike manoeuvre detections. Deadline for all groups 2024-02-02.
Projects (autumn 2022/2023)
The first task is individual while the remaining two are to be done in groups.
- Analysis of a paper describing an RCT according to the CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration document: task. Deadline 2022-11-24.
- Presentations about power analysis. Deadline 2023-01-09.
- Practical data analysis bike manoeuvre detections. Deadline for all groups 2023-02-02.
Projects (autumn 2021/2022)
All projects are supposed to be done in groups. Division into groups is given in the spreadsheet.
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Presentations about power analysis.
- Group A: 2022-01-27
- Group B: 2022-02-03
- Group C: 2022-02-10
- Analysis of a paper describing an RCT according to the CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration document: task. Deadline for all groups 2022-02-03.
- Task: processing and analysis of diffraction images. Deadline for all groups 2022-02-10.
Grades: assessment of the projects and feedback.
Survey about the course
Projects (autumn 2020/2021)
- Exploration of COVID-19 spread data: task.
- Analysis of a paper describing an RCT according to the CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration document: task.
- Designing an experiment: task.