Special Studies on Environ. and Resource Info.

72014

田中　章司郎

A data-driven approach to the interrelations of man and nature

2単位

1年

2019年度後期

To understand human aspects of environmental change and sustainable economic development increasingly requires interdisciplinary cross-knowledge and assessment of the interrelations between human and environmental systems. This course presents quantitative tools to dissolve the causality by identifying the factors one-by-one.

To acquire basic quantitative skills to analyze interrelations of human activity and environment.

Minimum requirements are to fully understand the following techniques:
(1) Basic statistics and multivariate correlations,
(2) Least-square fits,
(3) Maximum likelihood estimations and probability functions,
(4) Parameter estimations,
(5) Goodness of fit,
(6) Residual analysis,
(7) Quasi-real time data disposal and computer memory handling.

"Research Guidance"

Students will be required to look into the themes through internet and/or in library and be prepared for in-class discussion of the scheduled topic.

References will be presented to students occasionally in class.

G.P. Patil and C.R. Rao (Eds.). Handbook of Statistics XII: Environmental Statistics. Amsterdam: North Holland.　

定期試験は実施しません。

Grades will be evaluated by: 1) participation in discussions (10%); 2) presentations (25%); 3) report submissions on selected topics (65%). The reports on cardinal issues will get feed-back with scores.

Programming skills such as R, Matlab, SQL, SAS, and/or C are required.