Course: Statistics

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Course title Statistics
Course code KGI/4STAT
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Popelka Jan, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Descriptive statistics: Basic concepts. Population and sample. Frequency tabulation. Graphical presentation of data. 2. Descriptive statistics: Measures of location, variability, shape. Identification and rejection of outliers, Box-and-Whisker plot. 3. Probability: Basic concepts of probability theory. Random events and random variables, description of discrete random variables, description of continuous random variables. Discrete probability distributions. Continuous probability distributions. Quantiles. 4. Statistical induction: Relationship between population and sample, sampling methods, sample properties. Estimations of population parameters, point estimations, interval estimations. Robust estimation. 5. Statistical induction: Hypothesis testing. Testing procedure, null and alternative hypothesis, errors of the first and second kind. One?sample and two?sample parametric tests. 6. Statistical induction: One?way ANOVA, ratio of variance. Chi?square test and other variants (Yates' correction, Fisher Exact Probability Test, McNemar's Test). Contingency coefficients. 7. Statistical induction: Non?parametric tests. Tests of outliers (Grubbs Test, Dean and Dixon Q-test). Goodness?of?Fit tests (Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test). Alternatives to one-, two- and multiple sample tests (sign test, Mann-Whitney Test, Wilcoxon Test, Friedman Test, Kruskal-Wallis Test). 8. Correlation analysis: Linear Correlation Coefficient, Spearman Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient. Testing significance of Correlation Coefficient and Spearman Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient. Scatter plot. 9. Simple regression: Linear regression, least square method, residual SD, regression coefficients. Alternative models (linear, logarithmic, hyperbolic, polynomial). Variable transformations. Model selection (R-squared, R-squared adjusted, model selection via test). 10. Simple regression: Model control (testing of regression model and regression coefficients). General linear model. Residual analysis (randomness, independency, normality, homoskedasticity of residuals). Prediction. 11. Multiple regression: Selection of appropriate variables, correlation matrix, model comparison. Testing of regression model and regression coefficients. Residual analysis. 12. Time series: Types of time series, basic concepts, measures. Trend, periodic and random component. 13. Time series: Trend analysis, moving averages smoothing, smoothing with regression function. Forecasting.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
  • unspecified - 10 hours per semester
Recommended literature
  • Hendl J. Přehled statistických metod zpracování dat. Portál, Praha, 2006. ISBN 80-7367123-9.
  • HENDL, Jan. Statistika v aplikacích.
  • HUFF, D. Jak lhát se statistikou. Brána, Praha, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7243-623-1.
  • Popelka, Jan, Synek, Václav. Úvod do statistické analýzy dat. FŽP, Ústí nad Labem, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7414-117-1.
  • ROSENTHAL, J. S. Zasažen bleskem: podivuhodný svět pravděpodobností. Academia, Praha, 2008. ISBN 978-80-200-1645-4.
  • ROSLING, H., ROSLING, O. a A. ROSLING RÖNNLUND. Faktomluva: deset důvodů, proč se mýlíme v pohledu na svět - a proč jsou věci lepší, než vypadají. Jan Melvil Publishing, Brno, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7555-056-9.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Environment Study plan (Version): Environmental Protection (C_4) Category: Ecology and environmental protection 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter