- Docente: Marilena Pillati
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SECS-S/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION (cod. 8043)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at introducing the basic topics of statistics both from a methodological and an applied perspective with a special emphasis on economic and social phenomena. At the end of the course, the student:- acquires a knowledge of the fundamental concepts of the statistical methodology, both with respect to the statistical survey and the data analysis; - is able to analyses sets of data with a PC.
Course contents
From data sets to frequency distributions. Qualitative and quantitative variables and their levels of measurement. Description of the observed distribution of two variable and contingency tables.
Measures of central tendency. Measures of
variability.
Comparison between data: ratios and index numbers.
Relationships between variables: measures of association for discrete and ordinal data, regression and linear correlation.
Readings/Bibliography
Borra S., A. Di Ciaccio. Statistica, metodologie per le scienze economiche e sociali, McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2008 (capp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 16)
Lecturer notes downloadable from the lecturer home page
Assessment methods
Written and oral exam
Office hours
See the website of Marilena Pillati