Course Overview

This lecture introduces the dark side of statistics. Starting with randomization techniques, students learn relationships among different domains of statistical ideas: parametric, nonparametric, null hypothesis significance testing, information-theoretic methods, and the Bayesian methods.

Learning Achievement

This course introduces several aspects of statistics, and aims to give students the basic discipline of statistical thinking.

Competence

Lectures will give a basic introduction of these subjects for further study

Course prerequisites

None

Grading Philosophy

Attendance(0%), Exam(100%)

Course schedule

Language games and mandalas of statistics
The lady tasting tea: Chi-square test
You say yes, I say no: correlation and regression
Com-Pair-e, and ye shall receive: Mantel test
Ceteris Paribus: Partial Mantel test
Empire of parametric statistics 1: The master equation and distributions
Empire of parametric statistics 2: Central limit theorem
A Nova: Analysis of variance
Once I was blind, but now I can see 1: Maximum likelihood
Once I was blind, but now I can see 2: Bayesian"

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Tokunaga(Toquenaga) Yukihiko

Other information

Performance in or out of this class and at the final exam will be evaluated rather than attendance itself.

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