Analysis, data and statistics applied to wood sciences

  • ECTS

    3 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

  • Hourly volume

    21h

Description

  • Introduction to statistics and scientific approach

                       Scientific approach

                       Data structuring

                       Descriptive statistics

                       Overview of analytical methods

                       A Critical Look at Statistics

  • Univariate analyses

                       Comparison tests

                       Compliance of a distribution

                       Simple regression and variance/covariance analysis

  • Multivariate Analyses

                       Correlations and principal component analysis

                       Multiple linear regression

                       Non-linear adjustments

  • Classification and discrimination

                       Classification (supervised, unsupervised)

                       Segmentation and discrimination

  • Statistical analysis tools

                       Introduction to R software

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Objectives

The "Data Analysis" course aims to teach the main methods of statistical analysis, to enable students to acquire a rigorous analytical approach, and to develop a critical approach to the interpretation of results.

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Target skills

  • Understand the role of statistics in a rigorous scientific approach
  • Organizing data for analysis
  • Formulate an analysis requirement in statistical terms
  • Implement univariate and multivariate statistical analysis
  • Interpret the results of univariate and multivariate analysis
  • The main segmentation methods
  • Handling data with R
  • Use R functions to analyze data
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