Topic 2 - Probability Theory, Distributions, Inference
Lectures
Lecture 4: Sample Spaces and Counting
Lecture 5: Expectations / Variances / Discrete Distributions
Lecture 6: Continuous Distributions
Lecture 7: Central Limit Theorem and Sampling Distribution
Lecture 8: Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests
Lecture 9: Classical Test Statistics
Lecture 10: Numerical Inference
Labs
Lab 4: Sample Spaces and Counting
Lab 5: Playing With (Mostly) Discrete Distributions
Lab 6: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and the Central Limit Theorem
Lab 7: Tacks and Tests - Z, F, and T
Lecture 9: Test Statistics
BIOL709 / Winter 2018
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Distributions
Overview
Z distribution
Chi-squared distribution
T-distribution
F-distribution
Tests
T-tests of means
Paired T-test
F-test of variances
Robustness
Important final thought