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Statistics

Lecturer:Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck

Course: January 10 - February 8, 2013
Building C7 2
Lectures:
Thursdays 14:15-16:00, seminar room 1.12
Fridays 12:15-14:00, conference room 2.11

Excercises to be returned by Wednesdays 12noon (the exercises given Thu and Fri previous week).

Credits:3 CP


Course Contents

The course provides an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics in experimental linguistics and includes the following topics: Basic concepts in experimental research, the nature of different types of quantitative data, basic statistical techniques applicable to different types of data, presentation and interpretation of results. The basics of the statistical package R will be introduced in order to organise, analyse and present data.

Download R -- in advance -- from here:
http://www.r-project.org/


Course Requirements

Students are expected to return all home exercises on time (Wednesdays 12noon).

Remember to bring your own laptop every day!


Before the course

If you wanted to join the course, please email me your name and student ID by December 16, 2012.
Email address here.

Before the course starts, all students are asked to take a few hours to download R and try the basics. All this is instructed in the R demystified by Pirita -slides, see Readings. On 17.12.2012 all registered students will receive the password for the slides.


Exam at the end of the course

Written exam 8.2.2013.