Thomas Haslwanter is a Professor at the School of Medical Engineering and Applied Social Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Linz, and lecturer at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He also worked as a researcher at the University of Sydney, Australia and the University of Tübingen, Germany. He has extensive experience in medical research, with a focus on the diagnosis and treatment of vertigo and dizziness and on rehabilitation. After 15 years of extensive use of Matlab, he discovered Python, which he now uses for statistical data analysis, sound and image processing, and for biological simulation applications. He has been teaching in an academic environment for more than 15 years.

Provides an introduction to Python for statistical data analysis

Covers common statistical tests and various applications, including their implementation and working solutions in Python

Features a new chapter on finding patterns in data, also in time series, and useful programming tools

I Python and Statistics.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Python.- 3 Data Input.- 4 Data Display.- II Distributions and Hypothesis Tests.- 5 Basic Statistical Concepts.- 6 Distributions of One Variable.- 7 Hypothesis Tests.- 8 Tests of Means of Numerical Data.- 9 Tests on Categorical Data.- 10 Analysis of Survival Times.- III Statistical Modelling.- 11 Finding Patterns in Signals.- 12 Linear Regression Models.- 13 Generalized Linear Models.- 14 Bayesian Statistics.- Appendices.- A Useful Programming Tools.- B Solutions.- C Equations for Confidence Intervals.- D Web Ressources.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.