Content: | Graduate statistics course giving an advanced introduction to statistics and data analysis. | |
Level: | Intended for students at 3rd-5th year of studies and new Ph.D. students. | |
Prerequisites: | Math (calculus and linear algebra) and programming experience (preferably Python, but see note below). | |
Note on prerequisites: Programming is an essential tool and necessary for the course!!! | ||
When: | Monday 8:15-12:00, Tuesday 13:15-17:00, and Friday 8:15-12:00 (Week Schedule Group B). | |
Note on morning lectures: After the first three weeks, we will start 9:15 on Mondays and Fridays. | ||
Where: | Lectures: By Zoom (only). | |
Exercises: In Frederiksberg on Thorvaldsensvej 40 (mostly), see KU Room Schedule plan. | ||
Period: | Blok 2 (16th of November 2020 - 22nd of January 2021 including exam), 9 weeks total. | |
Format: | Shorter lectures followed by computer exercises, discussion, and occationally experiments. | |
Text book: | Roger Barlow: Statistics: A guide to the use of statistics. |
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Additional literature: | Philip R. Bevington: Data Reduction and Error Analysis, which is a great down-to-earth introduction to statistics. | |
Glen Cowan: Statistical Data Analysis, which is a shorter, modern introduction to statistics and data analysis. | ||
Programs used: | Simple Python (v3.8+) and a few packages on top in Jupyter Notebook (see Nature article). | |
This has pro's but also con's, both of which are important to know about, e.g. Why I don't like notebooks! | ||
For and introduction to ERDA and related issues, see the ERDA user guide. | ||
Exercise/code repository: | All code used for the exercises of the course will be at the AppliedStatisticsNBI GitHub. | |
Slack channel: | The course Slack channel is: NbiAppliedStatistics2020.slack.com. | |
Pensum/Curriculum: | The course curriculum covers chapters 1-8 + 10 with many exceptions, detailed in the link. | |
Key words: | PDFs, Uncertainties, Correlation, Chi-Square, Likelihood, Fitting, Monte Carlo and Data Analysis. | |
Expected learning: | What I expect you to learn is discussed here: Learning objectives | |
Language: | English (occational Danish utterings!). All exercises, problem sets, exams, notes, etc. are in English. | |
Evaluation: | Problem set (20%), Project (20%), and take-home exam (60%). | |
Exam: | Take-home (36 hours!) exam given Thursday the 21st of January 2021 at 8:00. | |
The exam will start on Thursday the 21st at 8:00 and end on Friday the 22nd of January at 20:00 (36 hours in total). | ||
Censur: | Internal censor evaluation (following the Danish 7-step scale) | |
Credits: | 7.5 ECTS (1/8 academic years work, that is 187.5-225 hours of work, thus about 23-28 hours weekly). |
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