Statistical Methods for SCIENCE

Course homepage – block 2, 2023/2024

This is the homepage of the above PhD course given by the Data Science Laboratory hosted by the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Computer Science. This homepage contains information and material such as course plans, slides, exercises and R files. The lecturer is Anton Rask Lundborg with TA Ulises Bercovich Szulmajster assisting at the exercises.

Course information and material

Room overview

The lectures are given Wednesdays from 9.15 to 12.45 on Frederiksberg Campus (Bülowsvej 17):

The exercise classes are held Wednesdays from 14.00 to 16.45 on Frederiksberg Campus (Thorvaldsensvej 40 or Bülowsvej 17):

Course schedule

The following schedule will be continuously updated with exercises, datafiles and slides.

Date Topic Book reference Slides Exercises Datafiles
22 Nov 2023 Basic principles Chapters 1, 3 and 4 day1.pdf ex_day1.pdf day1.zip
29 Nov 2023 Counts and proportions Chapter 6 (possibly
skipping 6.1 and 6.3)
day2.pdf ex_day2.pdf day2.zip
6 Dec 2023 Categorical regression Chapter 10 (skipping
10.1.2 and 10.1.3)
day3.pdf ex_day3.pdf day3.zip
13 Dec 2023 Regression analysis
Analysis of Variance
Chapter 7 day4.pdf ex_day4.pdf day4.zip
20 Dec 2023 Random effects
Repeated measurements
Chapter 9 (skipping
9.4, 9.6 and 9.7)
day5.pdf ex_day5.pdf day5.zip
3 Jan 2024 Non-linear regression
Design of Experiments
Mediation and Confounding
Chapter 11 day6.pdf ex_day6.pdf day6.zip