Course: Exploratory Multivariate Statistical Analysis

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Course title Exploratory Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Course code KMI/PGST
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hron Karel, prof. RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
The course is designed for doctoral students of computer science focused on methods of relational data analysis. It provides an overview of selected methods of classical statistical data analysis. - Introduction to multivariate statistics: data display, preprocessing. - Matrix algebra and random vectors. - Selection space geometry and random selection. - Multivariate normal distribution. - Main component method. - Factor analysis. - Factor analysis for binary data. - Cluster analysis.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide students of doctoral program in Informatics, especially those focused on relational methods of data analysis, education in selected traditional statistical methods of multivariate data analysis. In the course, they will be thoroughly acquainted with the basic concepts of statistical methods and their theoretical foundations.
1. Knowledge Recognize and understand comprehensively principles and methods of multivariate statistical analysis.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Completing the assignments. Passing the exam.
Recommended literature
  • Bartholomew, D.J., Steele, F., Moustaki, I., Galbraith, J. (2008). Analysis of multivariate social science data (2nd edition). Chapman and Hall, London.
  • Johnson, R.A., Wichern, D.W. (2007). Applied multivariate statistical analysis (6th edition). Prentica Hall.


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