Winter semester 2026/27
In the first semester at the University of Porto, I teach the following curricular units.
Statistical Inference (M4061) and Statistical Inference A (M4169)
With Eliana Duarte. The two curricular units M4061 and M4169 are taught together. We will cover the basics of statistical inference, such as statistical models, point and interval estimation, confidence intervals, parametric and nonparametric hypothesis testing and Bayesian inference. The course also includes practical applications using the R programming language.
There is a Google Site with the teaching material, which will be made available on invitation. If you intend to participate in the course, please send an email to Eliana Duarte Gelvez and she will share the site with you.
Further course information can also be found on the moodle pages of the courses:
Statistical Inference (M4061) Moodle page (available later)
Statistical Inference A (M4169) Moodle page (available later)
Prior experience with R is not required. The course will use R for selected exercises, so please install it before the first computational session.
You can Install R from the official CRAN website and use it from your system’s terminal. If you prefer using an IDE, then a popular choice is RStudio Desktop. R must be installed before RStudio. Further information is available in the official RStudio getting-started guide. To check your installation, open R or RStudio and run:
R.version.string
mean(c(1, 2, 3))
If the second command returns 2, then your installation is working.
Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry I (M1010)
With Gabriela Chaves. The course introduces systems of linear equations, vector spaces, linear maps, matrices and determinants.