Target group/prerequisites

Prerequisite for the course Applied Statistics is the course Introduction to R, and Statistics 2 or an equivalent level of knowledge.

Course design

Each day consists of lectures and practicals using R. The examples used in the lectures and practicals are based on data provided by researchers of VLAG.

Program topics

• Day 1: Hypothesis testing, analysis of variance - ANOVA, t-test, F-test, sample size, multiple comparisons test, experimental design
• Day 2: Correlation, simple linear regression, multiple linear regression
• Day 3: Regression with qualitative and quantitative variables, selection of variables, replication, pseudo replication

Former occurrences of this course

• 27-29 October 2020