Course title
基礎統計学   [Introducing to Statistics]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 1  Semester Spring 
Course type Spring  Course code 05MN5707
Instructor(s)
奥田 武弘   [OKUDA Takehiro]
Facility affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
This class provides a basic knowledge and related matters about statistical analyses.
Expected Learning
To acquire a basic knowledge and related matters about statistical analyses, and get literacy in statistics and data handling, which are essential for writing scientific papers, students have to achieve following items;
1) understand a basic knowledge about statistical analyses and get skills for adopting an appropriate statistical analysis to test a hypothesis or prediction;
2) get skills for planning observations or experiments to obtain necessary data sets to conduct statistical analyses planned to test a hypothesis or prediction, and for handling data sets obtained from observations a experiments to conduct planed statistical analyses; and
3) get skills for conducting statistical analyses by using statistical software R, and then creating appropriate graphs and tables to present results of analyses.
Course schedule
Lesson 1 Guidance of course
The outline of this course.

Lesson 2-3: Study planning and data handling
Learn about:
1) Processes of planning observations and experiments to accomplish the study, and processed of considering appropriate statistical analyses to analyze obtained data sets;
2) Concept of “tidy data” to prepare data set for conducting statistical analysis;
3) Processes of considering whether the planed analysis will be able to conduct appropriately based on characteristics of data sets; and
4) Processes of revising methods of observations, experiments, and statistical analyses, through appropriate handling of obtained data sets and creating graphs providing overhead views of data sets.

Lesson 4-5: Understand a basic knowledge about statistics
To conduct appropriate statistical analyses, learn about basic statistics, statistical tests, test statistics, statistical models, probability distributions, etc.

Lesson 6-7: Handling data and draw graphics with R
Learn about:
1) How to generate virtual data and edit data by using statistical software R; and
2) How to draw graphics by using statistical software R.

Lesson 8-9 Statistics Done Wrong
Learn about inappropriate use of statistics.

Lesson 10-11: Statistical analysis with R -statistical modelling-
Learn about:
1) Statistical tests and statistical modelling with R, and various types of statistics as results of statistical analyses; and
2) Processes of discussing whether obtained results will be appropriate to accomplish objects of the study, and advanced statistical analyses which would be candidate for revised analytical methods.
This course focuses generalized linear model (GLM).

Lesson 12-13 Statistical analysis with R -multivariate analyses-
Learn about series of multivariate analyses.

Lesson 14-15: How to indicate the results in R
Learn about how to create appropriate graphs to show results of analyses by using R. Learn about how to present appropriate graphs and tables in scientific papers.

The handout (e.g., PPT slides) will be distributed before each course work. It is desirable to prepare the summary of lessons. In each coursework, I will give some assignment to check learning contexts (deadline: two weeks after each lecture). After the ends of all coursework, I will request a report written in the form of a scientific paper (deadline: 7/31).
Prerequisites
Understanding mathematics provided at Japanese high school.
Required Text(s) and Materials
Handout will be arbitrarily provided before each coursework.
References
Paul Murrell (2011) R Graphics, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall.
Michael J. Crawley (2013) The R Book, Second Edition. Wiley.
Assessment/Grading
Assignment of each lesson: 60%, report: 40%
【2017】S:25%, A:25%, B:12.5%, C:25%, D:12.5%, E:0%
Message from instructor(s)
One of the goals of this class is getting skills for conducting Generalized Linear Model (GLM) by using statistical software R.
Course keywords
Statistical literacy, data literacy, programing, statistical modelling
Office hours
Before and after of each coursework. Open for any questions by e-mail.
Remarks 1
The coursework will be held on 4/13 (L1-3), 4/27 (L4-7), 5/18 (L8-11), and 6/1 (L12-15).
Remarks 2
The coursework is going to held in Japanese. For non-native Japanese speaker, I will flexibly deliver the lecture, assignment of each lesson, and final report. Please, do not hesitate to ask me about language problems and contents of each lesson.
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
3/23/2018 6:33:27 PM