Universität Wien

290025 UE Introduction to Statistical Data Analysis for TA students, Group A (2015W)

(gilt als UE Methoden wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie
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. 35 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

MO wtl. von 05.10.2015 bis 25.01.2016 11.00-13.00 Ort: CLS03, Classroom03, Spitalgasse 2 (Campus), Hof 7, Eingang 7.1., 1. Stock, 1090 Wien


Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course focuses on regionalstatistic analysis and methods, which are conducted with the software Excel 2013. Beside a general introduction in (spatial) statistics, indicators that help to estimate and interpretate the regional disparities are applied in the exercises of this course. Further, bi- and multivaritate statistics were applied to analyze interdependencies between regional variables; beside the analysis and interpretation of spatial data, the vizualisation of empirical results is a relevant topic in this course.

Assessment and permitted materials

attendance and continuous cooperation (20%), exercises (20%), term paper (60%)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The students have to acquire the following competences:
- develop regionalstatistic questioning
- management of databases
- application and interpretation of spatial-statistic indicators
- Vizualisation of empirical results, map design
- drawing up a regional-statistik term paper

Examination topics

presentation, exercises, discussion and interpretation of empirical results

Reading list

Duller, C. (2013): Einführung in die Statistik mit Excel und SPSS. Ein anwendungsorientiertes Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Springer.

Matthäus, W.-G. und Schulze J. (2011): Statistik mit Excel. Beschreibende Statistik für Jedermann. Vieweg&Teubner.

Association in the course directory

(UF BA GW 10)

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