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[ 551GRSDESDK21 ] KV Introduction to Statistics and Data Science

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS B1 - Bachelor's programme 1. year Statistics Werner Müller 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Statistics and Data Science 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students are able to correctly apply basic concepts of statistics and data science. They also know the importance and role of the subject in societal and scientific issues.
Skills Knowledge
  • Knowing and understanding of the basic problems, terms and measures of statistics and data science (k1,k2)
  • Understanding the role of the subject in society and the ethical handling of data (k3,k4,k5)
  • Applying statistical methods with the freeware LibreOffice (k3)
  • History of statistics and data science
  • Data ethics
  • Basic statistical concepts such as population and sample, characteristic, scale level, etc.
  • Descriptive statistics: frequency distribution, quantiles, measures of location, measures of dispersion, measures of correlation
  • Univariate and multivariate graphical representations of data
  • Simple linear and non-linear regression including residual analysis
  • Time series methods and index calculation
  • Concentration measurement, dealing with missing data
  • Probability calculation including Bayes' theorem
  • Important probability distributions and bootstrapping
  • Statistical testing
  • Decision trees
  • Artificial neural networks
Criteria for evaluation Homeworks
Methods Presentation by the instructor; Discussion of the homeworks
Language German
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 40
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority