Agenda
Probability Theory
Probability axioms - Probability space Sample space - Elementary event - Random variable - Probability measure - Complementary event - Joint probability - Marginal probability - Conditional probability - Independence - Conditional independence - Law of total probability - Law of large numbers - Bayes' theorem - Venn diagram - Tree diagram
Probability Distributions
Introduction: Probability mass function, Probability density function, Probability distribution function - Discrete univariate distributions: Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Hypergeometric - Continuous univariate distributions: Uniform, Exponential, Normal (Gaussian)
Frequentist Inference
Unbiased estimators (Mean unbiased minimum variance, Median unbiased) - Confidence interval - Testing hypotheses - Alpha-/Beta-Error and Power
Specific Tests
Z (normal) - Student's t-test - F - Goodness of fit (Chi-squared) - Signed-rank (1-sample, 2-sample, 1-way anova)
Trainer
Marco Skulschus (born in Germany in 1978) studied economics in Wuppertal (Germany) and Paris (France) and wrote his master´s thesis about semantic data modeling. He started working as a lecturer and consultant in 2002.
Publications
- Grundlagen empirische Sozialforschung ISBN 978-3-939701-23-1
- System und Systematik von Fragebögen ISBN 978-3-939701-26-2
- Oracle PL/SQL ISBN 978-3-939701-40-8
- MS SQL Server - T-SQL Programmierung und Abfragen ISBN 978-3-939701-69-9
Projects
- He works as an IT-consultant and project manager. He developed various Business Intelligence systems for industry clients and the public sector. For several years now, he is responsible for a BI-team in India which is mainly involved in BI and OLAP projects, reporting systems as well as statistical analysis and Data Mining.
Research
He led several research projects and was leading scientist and project manager of a publicly funded project about interactive questionnaires and online surveys.