General description

A compulsory basic studies course for major subject students.

Learning outcomes

See content.

Contents

The course introduces the use of descriptive statistics and the basics of statistical testing. It familiarises students with the different stages of statistical research, the starting point being in the acquisition of data and its presentation in data matrix form. The course introduces some means to illustrate information contained in the data. In addition, the course will familiarise students with the study of relations between variables by means of conditional statistics, scatter plots and crosstabulation. Also an introduction to probability and statistical inference is included in the course. Students will practise doing statistical research with some collected data.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	22 h	0 h
Tutorials	16 h	0 h

Teaching language

Finnish

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Recommended year of study

1. year 1. period.

Study materials

1. Mellin, I., Johdatus tilastotieteeseen, 1. kirja, tilastotieteen johdantokurssi. Helsingin yliopisto 1996.
2. Moore, D., The Basic Practice of Statistics, 3rd ed. Freeman 2004.
3. Helenius, H., Tilastollisten menetelmien perustiedot. Statcon Oy 1995.
4. Agresti, A., Finlay, B., Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. Prentice Hall 1997.
5. Weiss, N., Elementary Statistics, 6th ed. Addison Wesley 2004.
6. Leppälä, R., Ohjeita tilastollisen tutkimuksen toteuttamiseksi SPSS for Windows -ohjelmiston avulla. Tampereen yliopisto, MTF laitos, B53 2004.
7. Grönroos, M., Johdatus tilastotieteeseen - Kuvailu, mallit ja päättely. Finn Lectura 2004.
8. Liski, E., Puntanen, S., Tilastotieteen peruskurssi I. Tampereen yliopisto 1987.
9. Karjalainen, L., Tilastomatematiikka, 8. painos. Pii-kirjat 2004.
10. Larson, R., Farber, B., Elementary statistics: Picturing the World. Prentice Hall 2006.
11. Heikkilä, T., Tilastollinen tutkimus, 4. painos. Edita 2002.

Belongs to following study modules