Dr Oliver Johnson

This is the web page for the Level 1 course 'Statistics 1' lectured by Dr Oliver Johnson of the School of Mathematics of Bristol University.

Lectures take throughout teaching block 2.

Tuesdays 12.10-1 Chemistry LT2, Thursdays 10-10.50 Physics Powell LT.

R support sessions: Tuesday 11-12, Friday 10-11 in Undergraduate Computer Lab.

Office hours: Tuesdays 1.30-2.30 I will be in my office (Room 3.17) if you would like to ask about the course - or send me an email at other times.

A more detailed description of the course including syllabus, suggested reading and unit aims.

Lecture notes.

Corrections, clarifications etc (please let me know if you spot any more).

Problem Sheet 1.

Problem Sheet 2.

Problem Sheet 3 - link to disasters dataset.

Problem Sheet 4.

Problem Sheet 5.

Problem Sheet 6.

Problem Sheet 7.

Problem Sheet 8.

Problem Sheet 9.

Problem Sheet 10.

This material is copyright of the University of Bristol unless explicitly stated otherwise. It is provided exclusively for educational purposes at the University and is to be downloaded or copied for your private study only.

Downloading R to your own computer

R data set for the course.

R: a self-learn tutorial.

Using R in the Computing Lab.

Common parametric families and plots of their density functions.

The recommended textbook for the unit is:
Mathematical statistics and data analysis by JA Rice

A good introductory text for further reading about R is:
Introductory Statistics with R by Peter Dalgaard (e-book available through UoB)

Other Statistics books:

• Introduction to the practice of statistics by DS Moore and GP McCabe
• Mathematical statistics by JE Freund
• Probability and statistics by MH DeGroot
• Statistical theory by BW Lindgren
• Introduction to the theory of statistics by AM Mood, FA Graybill and DC Boes
• Introduction to mathematical statistics by RV Hogg and AT Craig
• Introduction to probability theory and statistical inference by HJ Larson
• Exploratory data analysis by JW Tukey

Benford's Law: (i) Financial crisis example (ii) Online calculator

Chance News

Larry Summers New York Times article (see point 6 in particular)

Regression by eye (requires Java)

Moneyball trailer

New York Times article on statistics

Hal Varian (Google chief economist) interview.

Quincunx

Cheltenham Festival special: Two Horse racing papers

538 -- see also Wikipedia page

Relevant XKCD cartoons: Null hypothesis | Statistical tests | Correlation vs causation