Section 14. Statistics 19th ÖMG Congress and Annual DMV Meeting

Organisers: Jürgen Pilz (AAU Klagenfurt), Markus Pauly (U Ulm)
Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, 11-15 September, 2017

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Statistics Education in High School

Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg, 13. 9., 15.30-16.40; 14.9., 13:30-17:20.

This half-day session within the Statistics Days of the Austrian Statistical Society (jointly with the ÖMG-DMV Congress of the Austrian and German Mathematical Societies) is organised by Manfred Borovcnik (AAU Klagenfurt) und Karl Josef Fuchs (Univ. Salzburg).

Contents of statistics and probability have become central topics of the curricula of secondary level as well as in teacher in-service courses at the university. The didactics of mathematics is challenged …

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Improved Hydrological Projections and Statistical Downscaling of Process-based Climate Models for the Upper Indus Basin

Rigorosum (Defensio) Firdos Khan
AAU Klagenfurt, N.0.0.7, 27.7.2017, 11.00
The availability of water resources plays an important role for the economy of a country. The nexus of Energy-Food-Water are interlinked and of particular importance in the uncertain environment of developing countries. In Pakistan, agriculture contributes 25 percent to the Gross Domestic Product. … This makes it important to investigate the status of water availability in the Upper Indus Basin under existing emission scenarios. In this study, the future availability of water is projected for the Indus River under the A2, B2, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 emission scenarios. …
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Ferialpraktikum: Applets in Excel zur Visualisierung in der Statistik-Ausbildung in wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Studien

M. Borovcnik, J. Winkler
AAU Klagenfurt, 10.7.-4.8.2017

Praktikantinnen Anna Kramer, Lea Lessiak
Programmieren und Gestalten von Applets in Excel. Diese Applets sollen das Verständnis von statistischen Begriffen erleichtern. Dabei werden auch Daten nach entsprechenden Wahrscheinlichkeitsannahmen zu simulieren, auszuwerten und graphisch darzustellen sein. Technisch-naturwissenschaftliche Inhalte im Praktikum: Programmieren in Excel. Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung – elementare Begriffe und Methoden. Simulation. Key issues for courses in introductory statistics and probability at university level for non-mathematical studies

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