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UNIWERSITY OF WARSAW

1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 (0)22 822 02 11

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Subject

Statistics and Crystallographic
Data Bases


No / course unit code


Semester

1M

Type of course

Lecture


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

15      1

ECTS credits

1


Lecturer:

Prof. dr. hab. Krzysztof Woźniak
Room: 163     Phone extn.: 212     email: kwozniak@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Theoretical Chemistry and Crystallography

Educational and
professional goals:

Practical learning of basic ideas of statistics, as well as crystallographic and literature databases.

Course description:

Lectures are focused on the basic ideas of statistics such as: brief history of statistics, exploratory parameters, random variables and their distributions, confidence intervals, testing of statistical hypotheses, ANOVA, regression analysis, correlation analysis, nonparametric methods and sequential methods. Then, four literature and crystallographic databases such as: Cambridge Structural Database, Inorganic Structural Database, Protein Data Bank and literature database from the Thompson Institute (former ICI in Philadelphia) are covered. At the end of the course each student completes his/her individual project and presents the final results in the form of oral presentation.

Required background:


None.

Form of assessment:


Sum of points from presentation of individual project and written exam.

Remarks:

-




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