Data analysis and Geostatistics

2025

 

Lectures

Week 0:    Course introduction       geostats1.pdf


Week 1:    A general introduction to (geo)statistics      geostats2.pdf


    See also;

  1. Bullet    Double-blind parachute testing                                external link

  2. Bullet   Try the 3-door problem yourself and win a car!         external link

  3. Bullet    Latest paper on the theory of the stork                      external link

  4. Bullet    Spurious correlations                                                 external link


Week 2:    Distributions, QA/QC and levelling.     geostats3.pdf


   See also;

  1. Bullet    Extensive description of the normal distribution         external link

  2. Bullet    On the construction of cumulative frequency plots    explanation

  3. Bullet    Paper introducing the concept of violin-plots             external link


Week 3:    QA/QC and error propagation.      geostats4.pdf


   See also;

  1. Bullet   How to estimate precision from duplicates                 external link  

  2. Bullet   The GEOREM database of SRM values                      external link

  3. Bullet   An online simulation of the central limit theorem        external link

  4. Bullet   More details on error propagation and formulae         external link

  5. Bullet   See also Rollinson - Using geochemical data, chapter 2


Week 4:    Covariance and correlation.      geostats5.pdf


See also;

  1. Bullet    Online calculator for Z-score probabilities                   external link

  2. Bullet    Wikipedia article on statistical testing                          external link

  3. Bullet    Online calculator for t-distribution values                     external link


Week 5:    Statistical testing     geostats6.pdf


See also;

  1. Bullet  Online calculator for F-distribution values                  external link

  2. Bullet   Online calculator for Chi2-distribution values             external link


Week 6:    Fall break


Week 7:    Analysis of Variance      geostats7.pdf


Week 8:    Time series analysis      geostats8.pdf


  See also;

  1. Bullet   An introduction into time series analysis with PAST   external link


Week 9:    The wonderful art of regression analysis       geostats9.pdf


  See also;

  1. Bullet    Guardian article on male bias in the “average” human    external link

  2. Bullet    Desk height calculator                                                      external link

  3. Bullet    People’s height distribution per country                          external link   

  4. Bullet    Wikipedia article on regression analysis                          external link

  5. Bullet    The effect of uncertainty on a linear regression fit          external link


Week 10:    Discriminant Function Analysis and Clustering     geostats10.pdf


  See also;

  1. Bullet    A great program for fuzzy clustering by Simon Vriend      Fuzzy.zip


Week 11:    Eigenvector methods (PCA and FA)   geostats11.pdf


Week 12:    Spatial analysis of data     geostats12.pdf


  See also;

  1. Bullet    A great background resource on kriging                   external page

  2. Bullet    Wikipedia article on kriging                                        external page

Enclosure to collect the effluent from flotation of base-metal ores.


Copyright:     Vincent van Hinsberg & Simon Vriend


Last updated:     November 2025