1. Sampling plan preparation, management and saving of the data
2. Types of data - quantitative and qualitative, description, characteristcs of variability, visualisation, outlier identification.
3. Hypothesis testing - null and alternative hypothesis, type I. and II. errors, statistical test and its power, p-value.
4. Introduction to the R environment and R studio interface, projects creation, data import, graphic outputs.
5. One-sample and two-sample tests - parametric and non-parametric methods, categorical data analysis - chi-squared and Fisher test.
6. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) - assessment of variances and normality, Kruskal-Wallis test - non-parametric alternative to ANOVA.
7. Correlation analysis - Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficent, data similarity measures (coefficients of similarity, correlation, covariance).
8. Regression analysis - linear regression, linear model assumptions, regression model parametres, coefficient of determination, statistical tests.
9. Regression analysis - polynomial regression, statistical tests, residual analyses.
10. Multiple linear regression - types of variable interactions, multicolinearity, missing data problems, applications.
11. Spatial data, autocorrelation, sampling, analysis, local and global statistics.
12. Multivariate analysis of data - principles, assumptions and data modification prior to the analysis.
13. Exploratory analysis, Principle component analysis (PCA), Multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), Factorial analysis of mixed data (FAMD), cluster analysis.