title slide, Elements of applied statistics - a practical course, lecture slides, Thomas Petzoldt, contains a photo of a landscape with mountainns symbolising the shape of statistical distributions

This website contains a collection of material for introductory statistics courses with R. The aim is to provide insight in fundamental principles and an overview to enable students to select and understand specialized books and online material to dig in deeper in the diverse and fascinating field of statistical computing.

The corresponding lab exercises are found at https://tpetzoldt.github.io/element-labs/.

Status

The selection of topics reflects what I think is useful as door-opener into various fields, useful in ecology and aquatic sciences. It is an ongoing project based on former PDF slides and other course material, constructive comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Further reading

Author

homepage +++ github

2025-09-16