Descriptive and Inductive Statistics using Minitab

Course Overview

ID 2203001
Duration 5.0 days
Methods Lecture with examples and exercises.
Prerequisites no
Target group Data Analysts

Overview

Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of data, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. Descriptive statistics is the discipline of quantitatively describing the main features of a collection of data, or the quantitative description itself. Statistical inference (or inductive statistics) is the process of drawing conclusions from data that is subject to random variation, for example, observational errors or sampling variation. This training provides you with a substantial overview of both descriptive and inductive statistics. All topics are firstly explained in presentations with the fundamental mathematical theory and examples followed secondly by hands-on exercices.

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Description

Learn how to use descriptive statistics in Minitab to describe and summarize data series in a structured way and then use inductive statistics to formulate and prove hypotheses.

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Content

Introduction to Statistics

Descriptive and Inductive Statistics - Uni-/Bi- and Multi-variate Statistics - Summary tables: Grouped data, Frequency distributions, Contingency tables - Statistical graphics: Bar chart, Biplot, Box plot, Histogram

Descriptive Statistics: Univariate Analysis

Location: Mean (Arithmetic, Geometric, Harmonic), Median, Mode - Dispersion: Range, Standard deviation, Coefficient of variation, Percentiles, Interquartile range - Shape: Variance, Skewness, Kurtosis, Moments

Descriptive Statistics: Bivariate Analysis

Dependence: Pearson product-moment correlation, Rank correlation (Spearman's rho, Kendall's tau), Partial correlation, Scatter plot - Linear regression: Simple linear regression, Ordinary least squares - Regression analysis: Errors and residuals, Regression model validation, Mixed effects models

Inductive Statistics: Probability Theory

Probability axioms - Probability space Sample space - Elementary event - Random variable - Probability measure - Complementary event - Joint probability - Marginal probability - Conditional probability - Independence - Conditional independence - Law of total probability - Law of large numbers - Bayes' theorem - Venn diagram - Tree diagram

Inductive Statistics: Probability Distributions

Introduction: Probability mass function, Probability density function, Probability distribution function - Discrete univariate distributions: Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Hypergeometric - Continuous univariate distributions: Uniform, Exponential, Normal (Gaussian)

Inductive Statistics: Frequentist Inference

Unbiased estimators (Mean unbiased minimum variance, Median unbiased) - Confidence interval - Testing hypotheses - Alpha-/Beta-Error and Power

Inductive Statistics: Specific Tests

Z (normal) - Student's t-test - F - Goodness of fit (Chi-squared) - ­Signed-rank (1-sample, 2-sample, 1-way anova)

Instructor

Our statistics trainer for DOE (Design of Experiments) and SPC (Statistical Process Control) and data analysis with Minitab Marco Skulschus studied economics in Wuppertal and Paris and has been working for more than 10 years as a lecturer, author of specialist books on databases and data analysis, and as a consultant for statistical analysis with Minitab.

Publications

  • Grundlagen empirische Sozialforschung (Comelio Medien )
    978-3-939701-23-1
  • System und Systematik von Fragebögen (Comelio Medien )
    978-3-939701-26-2
  • Oracle SQL (Comelio Medien )
    978-3-939701-41-5
  • MS SQL Server - T-SQL - Abfragen und Analysen (Comelio Medien )
    978-3-939701-69-9

Projects

Mr. Skulschus develops analysis systems based on relational databases and data from production and quality assurance.

Research

He led a multi-year research project to develop a questionnaire system with an ontology-based data model and innovative question-answer representations. Funded by the BMWi and in collaboration with various universities.