Welcome to the section Basics of Statistics - Concepts and Applications. In this section we explore the basics of statistics, with a special focus on descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. In the following subsections we present the statistical theory and we provide hands-on coding recipes in the R programming environment. If you are not yet comfortable with R it is recommended to go through the section INTRODUCTION TO THE STATISTICAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE R first.

Please note that the content of the section BASICS OF STATISTICS - CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS complements and extends the material covered in the class Introduction to Statistics, held at the Department of Geosciences, Institute of Geographical Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin.

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The E-Learning project SOGA-R was developed at the Department of Earth Sciences by Kai Hartmann, Joachim Krois and Annette Rudolph. You can reach us via mail by soga[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de.

You may use this project freely under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Please cite as follow: Hartmann, K., Krois, J., Rudolph, A. (2023): Statistics and Geodata Analysis using R (SOGA-R). Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universitaet Berlin.