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:

Central Limit Theorem.

Mean and width.

Correlations.

Binomial, Poisson, and Gaussian.

Error propagation.

Reading:

Chapter 1: Introduction.

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

Chapter 3: Probability Density Functions (PDFs).

Chapter 4: Error propagation.

Computer exercises:

CentralLimitTheorem: CentralLimit.c

AnscombesQuartet: AnscombesQuartet.c (for illustration)

TableMeasurements: TableMeasurements.c and TableMeasurements_data.csv

TableMeasurement analysis examples:
TableMeasurements_SolutionLevel1.c
TableMeasurements_SolutionLevel2.c
TableMeasurements_SolutionLevel3.c

ErrorPropagation: ErrorPropagation.c

Comments:
Friday 11:15-12:00: Special session on Linux, Emacs, C++, and ROOT (in Aud. M by Sascha Mehlhase).
Files used for session on computing:

C++ and ROOT intro

Shell commands

Tools

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Last updated 11th of September 2011.