06445 - Business Statistics

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Docente: Marzia Freo
  • Credits: 10
  • SSD: SECS-S/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in STATISTICAL SCIENCES (cod. 8054)

Learning outcomes

This course introduces the student to methods and models of business statistics. 

The objectives of the course are:

1. provide exposure to existing, implementable statistical analysis of the competition ;

2. provide experience in using statistical models to evaluate company's performance metrics.

Course contents

Sources and types of data for business statistics.

Distributional characterisctics of financial ratios

Bankruptcy prediction model

Benchmarking

Frontier production functions and technical efficiency measures

Forecasting marketing performance measures: brand choice and market share.

Choice of investments under uncertainty


Readings/Bibliography

Brasini S., Freo M., Tassinari F., Tassinari G. (2002), Statistica aziendale e analisi di mercato (Part I ), Il Mulino.

Invernizzi G., Molteni M. (1994), Analisi di bilancio e diagnosi strategica (Chap. 3), ETASLIBRI. (Cap. 3)

Barontini R. (2000), La valutazione del rischio di credito (Chap. 1), Il Mulino.

Gazzei D.S., Lemmi A., Viviani A. (1997), Misure statistiche di performance produttiva (Chap. 1), CLEUP.

Veerbek M. (2006), Econometria (Chap. 7), Zanichelli.

Bracalente B., Cossignani M., Mulas A. (2010), Statistica aziendale (Chap. 1,6), McGraw-Hill.

Teaching methods

Classroom and laboratory lessons

Assessment methods

Oral examination. The examination consists into two to three answers in order to evaluate  knowledges  learned by the student and how they are deepened.

Teaching tools

Slides and examples can be found on the teacher web-site.

Links to further information

http://www2.stat.unibo.it/freo/

Office hours

See the website of Marzia Freo