Closing comments
Case Studies in Statistical Thinking
Justin Bois
Lecturer, Caltech
Fractional improvment in finals
Quantifying the Current Controversy
Inter-earthquake times of the Parkfield sequence
Oklahoma earthquakes
1 Data source: USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat)
Active bout lengths
1 Data courtesy of Avni Gandhi, Grigorios Oikonomou, and David Prober, Caltech
Each dataset offers unique challenges
Each dataset offers unique challenges
1 Fault data: USGS Quaternary Fault Fault and Fold Database of the United States 2 Earthquake data: USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat)
My goals for you
- Recognize your opportunity to learn and contribute
My goals for you
- Sharpen hacker stats skills
- Bootstrap confidence intervals
- Permutation and bootstrap hypothesis tests
- Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
- Location parameters
- Log-linear regression
My goals for you
- Statistical inference pipeline
- EDA
- Parameter estimation/confidence intervals
- Hypothesis test
My goals for you
- Ability to frame precise questions
