78075 - Methods for Data Analysis

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)

Course contents

1. An introduction to R.

2. Data management.

3. Graphics.

4. Summary statistics, univariate and bivariate, for data exploration.

5. Random variables and probability distributions.

6. From the sample to the population. Statistical inference.

7. The linear model.

Readings/Bibliography

Francesca Ieva, Chiara Masci, Anna Maria Paganoni (2016), Laboratorio di Statistica con R - Seconda Edizione, Pearson

Teaching methods

Lectures, laboratories and exercises.

Assessment methods

The final evaluation is carried out by a written examination and a practical test on the use of software.

Teaching tools

R software; web page http://www.r-project.org/.

Office hours

See the website of Maria Ferrante