Data analysis and Geostatistics

2022

 

Lectures

Week 1:    A general introduction to statistics      geostats1.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:    Data descriptors and distributions.    geostats2.pdf


   See also;

  1. Bullet    Extensive description of the normal distribution         external link

  2. Bullet    On the construction of cumulative frequency plots    explanation


Week 4a:    Assessing data quality and merging datasets    geostats3.pdf


   See also;

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

  2. Bullet    How to estimate precision from duplicates                 external link  

  3. Bullet    The GEOREM database of SRM values                      external link


Week 4b:    Correlation and the correlation coefficient   geostats4.pdf


  See also;

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

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

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


Week 5:    Statistical testing with population distributions.    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 6:    Statistical testing of means and goodness-of-fit.    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 7:   Analysis of time-series data.    geostats7.pdf


  See also;

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


Week 8:    Spring Break


Week 9:    A brief review    geostats8.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


Week 10:    The wonderful art of regression analysis    geostats9.pdf


  See also;

  1. Bullet    Wikipedia article on regression analysis                    external link

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


Week 11:    DFA/LDA and Cluster analysis    geostats10.pdf


  See also;

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

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


Copyright:     Vincent van Hinsberg & Simon Vriend


Last updated:     March 2022