- Docente: Fedele Pasquale Greco
- Credits: 5
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in FINANCE, INSURANCE AND BUSINESS (cod. 8053)
Learning outcomes
Students gain basic skills for data analysis in Excel and R.
Course contents
Introduction to descriptive statistics and probability with R and Excel:
- Loading and exporting data
- Creating and transforming variabes. Management of missing
data
- Univariate distributions and their graphical representation
- Summarisation of univariate distributions: measures of scale and
variability
- Contingency tables and related indices
- Simulation exercises for studying random variables and their
properties
Readings/Bibliography
Excel: Some additional reading will be provided during the
course.
Iacus S.M., Masarotto G. (2003), "Laboratorio statistico con R",
McGraw-Hill.
Teaching methods
Some statistical problems will be analysed by means of statistical softwares. The course will be based on laboratory applications.
Assessment methods
The final exam is held in a computer laboratory with the software Excel and R. The students can consult teaching material adopted along the lectures. The prove comprises two exercises: the first one consists in descriptive analyses performed in Excel. The second exercise consists in descriptive analyses performed in R.
Teaching tools
Each student will have a personal computer
Office hours
See the website of Fedele Pasquale Greco