Applied Statistics - Week 1

The following chapters (including exercises in the book!) and computer exercises are considered read, understood, and solved by the end of the week.

Lectures:

Introduction and Central Limit Theorem.

Correlations.

Error Propagation.

Reading:

Chapter 1: Introduction.

Chapter 2: Mean, width, and correlation (see also Cowan 1.6).

Chapter 3: Probability Density Functions (PDFs).

Computer exercises:

CentralLimitTheorem: CentralLimit.c

AnscombesQuartet: AnscombesQuartet.c (for illustration)

TableMeasurements: TableMeasurements.c (Solution: TableMeasurements_Solution.c)

Comments:
Friday 14:15-15:00: Special session on Linux, Emacs, C++, and ROOT (in Cc3).

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Last updated 9th of September 2010.