Course Elective 18 - Introductory statistical data analysis for geoscientists using Matlab/Octave

Staff involved:

Dr. R. Dietmar Mueller, University of Sydney and Dr. John Y. You, The University of Sydney Institute of Marine Science (USIMS).

Module Objectives:

This course is aimed at conveying the basic principles of statistical data analysis in geoscience.

Module program:

• Data collection and preparation
• Statistics with one variable
• Graphical and numerical description
• Probability
• The Normal Distribution
• Inference
• Analysis of Variance
• Statistics with two variables
• The bivariate scatter
• The Correlation coefficient
• Bivariate regression
  

Format, duration and timing:

• Dates: 8-11 June 2004
• Location: R. 513
• Lectures: 9 -10.30 h
• Labs: 10.30-12.30 h, 14-17 h
  

Text and/or reference material:

• Introduction to Geological Data Analysis, A.R.H. Swan, M. Sandilands,1995, Blackwell Science, 446 pp.
• Statistics toolbox for use with Matlab, B. Jones, 1996.
  

Assessment:

Computer exercises using Matlab.

Module contact person and coordinator:

• Dr. R. Dietmar Mueller
• University of Sydney
• Phone: (02) 9351 2003
• Fax: (02) 9351 0184
• E-mail: dietmar@geosci.usyd.edu.au