Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology

Spring 1999

Taught by Dr. Paul Layer

This was an intense class in statistics. It covered a huge amount of territory, looking into many different aspects of statistics. Because of the amount of material covered it was a very time intensive class. In some ways this detracted from all the other things (classes included), but that is the way it goes. My suggestion to anyone who planning to take it: pretend it is a 6 credit class in terms of budgeting your time.

That said, I must say that I enjoyed it. I like playing with numbers, and that is the very heart of statistics. In fact I am tempted to take more statistics classes just to learn more J .

From the course catalog:

GEOS-430 Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology 3 Credits (Spring)

Computer-supported geologic applications of elementary statistics, Markov chains, time-series analysis, trend-surface analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminate

analysis and multiple regression. (Prerequisites: GEOS-225 and STAT-200)

Dr. Layer gave us printed notes every day, and made the files available to the students, so I converted the files to HTML and put them here. However, since they are his property (ie I am respecting his copyright, even if not specifically protected) they remain only for my own use and are kept local (not uploaded to my web site). I.e. the following links to lectures will not work.

Note: Some of the characters and graphs in the files were not preserved on conversion to HTML…(sorry!)… 

 

Lecture 1

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Lecture 2

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Lecture 3

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Lecture 4

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Lecture 5

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Lecture 6

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Lecture 7

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Lecture 8

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Lecture 10

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Final exam notes

Key to types of tests, what they are used for, etc. (Written to help with the final) 

 

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However if you want to use portions of it feel free to do so, though I would appreciate it if you would acknowledge my authorship.

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