ice2ice statistics workshop for PhDs and (others)
“Statistics is a fascinating subject – unfortunately, its teaching is often excruciatingly dull.”– Foreword in a classic statistics textbook.
The ice2ice statistics workshop aims – in contrast – to be an interesting, illustrative and interactive environment, in which we present and explore the use of statistics and other quantitative methods in climate, paleoclimate, paleoceanography and other geosciences.
We will have a few formal lectures, complemented by lots of informal learning and interactive exchanges between lecturers and participants, and between participants. We will work hands-on in small groups and individually on some example data and our own data sets (paleo proxy, observations and/or model data), trying out different methods on the data sets. We will use “R”, a free and comprehensive software environment for statistical computing and graphics: https://www.r-project.org/
Lectures will cover introductory to advanced concepts and methods, adapted to the interests of the participants. Preliminary topics include:
- Inferential statistics I and II: Theory and methods of univariate and multivariate statistics, including significance and resampling statistics, e.g., bootstrapping and Monte Carlo simulation methods
- Time series analysis: time-, frequency- and time-frequency domain (e.g., wavelets)
- Spatial analysis: geostatistics and more, including spatial autocorrelation and its impacts
The workshop is intended primarily for ice2ice PhD students, and will span 3 or 4 days during week 8 (19-23 February), including a social evening of course. Participation by others from ice2ice is also welcome: Remember you can always learn more statistics!
Please send an email to express your interest: martin.miles@uni.no or iri@dmi.dk. Please include any relevant comments (personal goals for the workshop, special topics of interest, partial attendance, etc.).
For more information on the workshop, please visit the ice2ice website: https://ice2ice.w.uib.no/calendar/