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Interpretation of geodata

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Course Unit Code548-0092/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated3 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
IVA026prof. Ing. Igor Ivan, Ph.D.
Summary
This course is focused on a practical work with data, its pre-processing, formatting and transformations. Practical introduction of basic statistical methods of data dimensions reduction and other multivariate methods such as factor, discriminant and cluster analysis and decision trees. Also basic principles of data mining are introduced. The aspect of results interpretation and maximal mining of information from data and geodata are key aspects of this course.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
- Student demonstrates knowledge:
• basics of working with the program R
• selected statistical methods
- Students can:
• edit the data matrix
• apply selected statistical methods
• reduce the size of the input data matrix
- Student is able to:
• interpret the results
• extract the maximum information from the supplied data and geodata
Course Contents
1) Methods of pre-processing of data and geodata for further processing
2) Errors in data and geodata and dealing with errors
3) Basics in R
4) R and geodata
5) Principal component analysis and interpretation of results
6) Factor analysis and interpretation of results
7) Discriminant analysis and interpretation of results
8) Cluster analysis and interpretation of results
9) Decision trees and interpretation of results
10)Basics of data mining
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
ZUUR, A. F., IENO, E. N., MEESTERS, E. (2009): A Beginner's Guide to R. Springer, 236 p.
DALGAARD, P. (2008): Introductory Statistics with R. Springer, 380 p.
LOVELACE, R., NOWOSAD, R.,MUENCHOW, J.(2019): Geocomputation with R. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. The R series. ISBN 978-1-138-30451-2.
SPECTOR, P. (2008): Data manipulation with R. New York: Springer. Use R!. ISBN 978-0-387-74730-9.
STINEROCK, R. N. (2018): Statistics with R: a beginner's guide. Los Angeles: SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4739-2489-5.
BROM, O. (2015): SPSS – Praktická analýza dat. Computer Press, 320 stran.
PUNCH, K. F. (2008): Základy kvantitativního šetření. Praha: Portál, 152 stran.
ZVÁRA, K. (2013): Biomedicínská statistika IV: Základy statistiky v prostředí. Karolinum, 260 stran.
DALGAARD, P. (2008): Introductory Statistics with R. Springer, 380 p.
Recommended Reading:
EVERITT, B., HOTHORN, T. (2011): An Introduction to Applied Multivariate Analysis with R. Springer, 288 p.
SCHUMACKER, R.,E., TOMEK, S. (2013): Understanding statistics using R. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-6226-2.
WICKHAM, H., GROLEMUND, G. (2016): R for data science: import, tidy, transform, visualize, and model data. Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4919-1039-9.
LAROSE, C. D., LAROSE, D.T. (2019): Data science using Python and R. Hoboken: Wiley. Wiley series on methods and applications in data mining. ISBN 978-1-119-52681-0.
TATTAR, P., RAMAIAH, S., MANJUNATH, B. G.(2016): A course in statistics with R. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 9781119152750.
SPIWOK, V. (2015): STATISTICKA ANALYSA DAT V R. VSCHT Praha, 125 stran.
HENDL, J. (2004): Přehled statistických metod zpracování dat. Praha , Portál. ISBN 80-7178-820-1.
HENDL, J. a kol. (2014): Statistika v aplikacích. Praha, Portál. ISBN 978-80-262-0700-9.
EVERITT, B., HOTHORN, T. (2011): An Introduction to Applied Multivariate Analysis with R. Springer, 288 p.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
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Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Graded creditGraded credit100 51