@ Author: Sebastian Scher

This is a workshop for basic practical statistics. It approaches the concept of statistical significane in an intiutive way using random number generators.

It was developed for the meteorological department at Stockholm University (MISU).

how to use this ipython notebook:

option 1) upload it to colab https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb#recent=true (you can run it in a free environment, and dont need to install anything)

option 2): run it on your laptop

you need: python3, with the following packages: numpy matplotlib scipy seaborn jupyter

if you use anaconda, these packages are already installed in the standard install if you use anaconda and want to use a virtual environment, then type conda create -n stat-workshop-env ipython jupyter scipy seaborn matplotlib

on max/linux type

source activate stat-workshop-env

on windows

activate stat-workshop-env

and start the notebook server with

jupyter notebook

the notebook should open in your browser automatically. if not, type "http://localhost:8888" in your browser

dont close the terminal!!

now navigate to the saved notebook file and open it

if you dont use anaconda, you need to install the packages in some other way (not recommend)