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[ 951SMDSSPDK20 ] KV Statistical Principles of Data Science

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6 ECTS M1 - Master's programme 1. year Statistics Andreas Futschik 3 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Master's programme Statistics and Data Science 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students are able to carry out tasks commonly occurring in data science, such as data cleaning, exploratory data analysis and methods of inference and prediction. They are able to properly apply basic statistical methods on real-world data.
Skills Knowledge
  • Knowing and understanding basic principles, terminology and methods of statistics (k1,k2)
  • Applying statistical methods and critically evaluating their results (k3,k4, k5)
  • Knowing about common pitfalls (k3)
  • Solving typical tasks in Data Science, including non-standard problems and data types (k2,k3)
  • Using of statistical software
  • Exploratory data Analysis and Data Cleaning with R
  • Methods of inference such as regression in different variants
  • Classical versus Bayesian statistics
  • Selected modern developments such as statistical learning, causal inference, text/image analysis, or dealing with large amounts of data
Criteria for evaluation Homework plus written exam.
Language English
Study material Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie: Computer Age Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press 2016.
Changing subject? Yes
Corresponding lecture 951SMDSSPDK17: KV Statistical Principles of Data Science (6 ECTS)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 25
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority