Session 2 - Statistics & Inference
From single random quantities to data: summarising it and drawing conclusions.
Topics covered
- Mean, variance, standard deviation; covariance and correlation
- The law of large numbers and the central limit theorem
- Estimation and the standard error
- Confidence intervals
- Hypothesis testing (p-values, Type I and II errors, effect size)
- Linear regression by least squares
Materials
- 📊 Slides
- ✏️ Exercise sheet
- ✅ Solutions