Universität Wien

260014 VU Statistical Methods of Data Analysis (2025W)

5.00 ECTS (3.00 SWS), SPL 26 - Physik
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 15 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

The lecture will be at Österreichische Postsparkasse, 3. Stock, Besprechungsraum 3A, Georg-Coch Platz 2

  • Monday 06.10. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 13.10. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 20.10. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 27.10. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 03.11. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 10.11. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 17.11. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 24.11. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 01.12. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 15.12. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 12.01. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details
  • Monday 19.01. 14:00 - 16:30 Ort in u:find Details

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The students will understand and learn how to apply the most important statistical methods in experimental data analysis.

Elementary introduction to probability; Bayes' theorem; counting experimants, discrete random variables; measurement experiments and continuous random variables; random samples and sample statistics; and their properties; moment estimators, maximum likelihood estimators, bayes estimators; confidence intervals and credible intervals; linear models and regression.

Assessment and permitted materials

Weekly blackboard and programming exercises. In addition, there will be an oral or written examination at the end of the semester, depending on the number of participants.
The exercises make up 60% of the final grade.
Lecture + exercises are in German. However, given enough popular demand, one of the exercise groups may switch to English.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Mathematics of the first two semesters

Examination topics

The content of the book "Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Statistik für Studierende der Physik"

http://bookboon.com/de/wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung-und-statistik-ebook

Reading list

Grundlage der Vorlesung ist das Buch "Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Statistik für Studierende der Physik", siehe:

http://bookboon.com/de/wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung-und-statistik-ebook

Die Vorlesungsfolien sind unter https://github.com/WolfgangWaltenberger/classroom/tree/master/stat2025 erhältlich.

Ergänzend:

Fahrmeir,Künstler,Pigeot,Tutz: Statistik. Springer, 2007.

Sheldon M. Ross, Statistik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler. Spektrum Verlag, 2006.

Association in the course directory

M-VAF A 2, M-VAF B, UF MA PHYS 01a, UF MA PHYS 01b, PM-SPEC

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