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Introduction to Statistics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 470-2404/04
Abbreviation ZS
Course title Introduction to Statistics
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mathematics
Course coordinator Ing. Martina Litschmannová, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Descriptive statistics of qualitative variable, i.e. frequency table, frequency graphs (bar and line graph) in MS Excel
2. Basics of working with R software (data matrices, data types, indexing, picking, mathematical and logical operators, loading files, loading files with missing values, ...) + Descriptive statistics of qualitative variables in R
3. Descriptive statistics of a quantitative variable (measures of position, measures of variability, measures of skewness and kurtosis, rounding of numerical characteristics, outliers and their identification, visualization (histogram, box plot))
4. Descriptive statistics of a quantitative variable in MS Excel (2 exercises)
5. Descriptive statistics of a quantitative variable in R
6. Credit test 1
7. Descriptive statistics for the analysis of the dependence of two quantitative variables (correlation coefficients, scattergrams, introduction to linear regression)
8. Descriptive statistics for dependence analysis of two quantitative variables - MS Excel + R
9. Descriptive statistics for paired data in MS Excel + R
10. Descriptive time series analysis (measures of dynamics, moving averages, visualization)
11. Descriptive time series analysis in MS Excel + R
12. Credit test 2

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en to students of the course.

Povinná literatura

[1] CRAWLEY, Michael J. Statistics: an introduction using R. Chichester, West Sussex, England: J. Wiley, c2005. ISBN 978-0470022986 
[2] StatSoft, Inc. (2013). Electronic Statistics Textbook. Tulsa, OK: StatSoft. WEB: http://www.statsoft.com

Doporučená literatura

[1] Online Statistics Education: A Multimedia Course of Study (http://onlinestatbook.com/). Project Leader: David M. Lane, Rice University.