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Course 2021-2022 a.y.

20356 - PRECORSO DI STATISTICA / STATISTICS - PREPARATORY COURSE

Department of Decision Sciences

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GIO (I sem. - P)
Course Director:
PIERO VERONESE

Classes: 1 (I sem.)
Instructors:
Class 1: ALBERTO SACCARDI

Class group/s taught in English

Class-group lessons delivered  on campus

Mission & Content Summary
MISSION

The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge of statistics and data analysis necessary to face the compulsory courses of Quantitative Methods, present in the Master M, IM, MM, ACME, GIO, PPA.

CONTENT SUMMARY
  • Introduction to data sources, database, sampling.
  • Description of qualitative data: classification of variables, univariate and bivariate analysis, graphical  representations.
  • Description of quantitative data: summary measures, outliers detection, bivariate analysis, scatter plots.
  • Probability and random variables(brief notes): standard distributions
  • Introduction to inferential statistics: point and interval estimation, introduction to esting theory
  • Test for bivariate analysis: test of indipendence, test on the difference of means.
  • Simple regression and test on the coefficients.

Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face lectures
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Teaching materials
ATTENDING AND NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

Paul Newbold, William Carlson and Betty Thorne, STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 9e, 2019

Last change 19/07/2021 09:44

GIO (I sem. - P)
Course Director:
PIERO VERONESE

Classi: 1 (I sem.)
Docenti responsabili delle classi:
Class 1: ALBERTO SACCARDI

Classe/i impartita/e in lingua italiana