| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Meteorology | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | The undergraduate level | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Statistics in Meteorology | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Ivana Tošić | |||||||||
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| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 7 | Status (required/elective) | required | |||||||
| Access requirements | Mathematics 1 | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | To learn students with basics of probability theory and statistics | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | To utilize statistical techniques for addressing problems in Meteorology | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | The theory of Probability - 1. Random events. 2. Clasical definition of Probability. 3. Conditional Probability. 4. Independence of events. 5. The one-dimensional random variables. 6. The two-dimensional random variables. 7. Numerical characteristics of random variables. 8. Distribution functions. 9. Laws of Large Numbers and Central Limit Theorem. Statistics - 10. Sample. 11. Properties of Estimators. 12. Method of Moments and Maximum Likelihood Estimation. 13. Hypothesis testing. 14. The Chi-Square test. 15. Least-Squares Estimation. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Using various statistical software to perform data analysis. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Jevremovic, V., 2009: Probability and statistics. Faculty of Mathematics, Belgrade, 321 pp. | |||||||||
| 2 | Jevremovic, V., Malisic, J., 2002: Statistical methods in Meteorology and engineering. Federal Hydrometeorological Service, Belgrade, 296 pp. | |||||||||
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| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 4 | 3 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, exercises, seminars | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 5 | written examination | ||||||||
| practicals | oral examination | 50 | ||||||||
| papers | 30 | |||||||||
| presentations | 15 | |||||||||