CSCE 5310 - Methods in Empirical Analysis

3 hours

Introduction to applied analysis. Topics include concepts in the design of empirical computer science research and the application of the appropriate associated statistical analysis methods; the nature and importance of scientific hypotheses in computer science, the design of valid experiments to test such hypotheses, and the basic techniques of applied statistical analysis including the exploration of the meaning of results and methods of describing data on individual variables and examining association between variables including estimation, tests of mean differences, differences in distributions, and correlation between variables; random sampling, probabilities, and independent and identically distributed data concepts are discussed as a basis for understanding how to infer results from samples to the populations from which they are drawn.

Prerequisite(s): None.