Practical Stuff
- Language: English
- Calendar: every Monday and Thursday from Mon 12/01/2026 to Thu 26/03/2026
- Monday 08:45 - 10:15 Room B1 Palazzina Briati
- Thursday 08:45 - 10:15 Room 0L Polo didattico San Basilio (Magazzino 4)
Recommended Book
- Statistics: A Guide to the Use of Statistical Methods in the Physical Sciences, by R. J. Barlow, Publisher: Wiley, 1993
MID-Term Exam
Final Exam
Coding Project
- Deadline: 22/02/26 at 23:59
- Download dataset of your choice.
- Max 2 people per team. Send team names by email BEFORE 02/02/26.
- Make an analysis in python. chatGPT is not allowed. I will find out :)
- Hand in all codes (in .zip folder) and a .PDF report on your analyses and results. Files: surname1_surname2.zip and surname1_surname2.pdf
Contents
- Descriptive statistics (mean, median, variance, standard deviation)
- Weighted mean, uncertainty of the mean, Distributions
- Covariance and the Pearson correlation coefficient
- Significant figures, rounding and scientific notation
- Probability distributions: Uniform, Binomial
- Probability distributions: Poisson
- Probability distributions: Gaussian
- Probability distributions: exercises
- The Central Limit Theorem
- Error propagation
- Conditional probability and Bayes’ theorem
- Exercises for the Exam
Python Codes
- lesson1_basic_concepts.ipynb
- lesson3_19january2026.ipynb
- lesson4_22january2026.ipynb
- lesson5_25_29_january2026.ipynb
- lesson7_2_february2026_1.ipynb
- lesson7_2_february2026_2.ipynb
- lesson8_5_february2026_error_propagation.ipynb