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
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.
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