Week 0:    Course introduction       geostats1.pdf

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

    See also;

1.     Double-blind parachute testing                                external link
   

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

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

4.     Spurious correlations                                                 external link
   

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

   See also;

1.     Extensive description of the normal distribution         external link
   

2.     On the construction of cumulative frequency plots    explanation
   

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

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

   See also;

1.    How to estimate precision from duplicates                 external link  
   

2.    The GEOREM database of SRM values                      external link
   

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

4.    More details on error propagation and formulae         external link
   

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

Week 4:    Covariance and correlation.      geostats5.pdf

See also;

1.     Online calculator for Z-score probabilities                   external link
   

2.     Wikipedia article on statistical testing                          external link
   

3.     Online calculator for t-distribution values                     external link
   

Week 5:    Statistical testing I     geostats6.pdf

See also;

1.   Online calculator for F-distribution values                  external link

Copyright:     Vincent van Hinsberg & Simon Vriend

Last updated:     October 2025