75942 - Laboratory of Quantitative Methods for Enterprise

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration and Management (cod. 8842)

Learning outcomes

Students gain intermediate skills for the analysis of economic data in STATA

Course contents

- 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
- Regression analysis

Readings/Bibliography

Teacher's notes

Teaching methods

Theory and empirical applications

Assessment methods

At the end of the course, students are expected to hold the following competences: the ability to apply statistical methods and tools presented during the course; the ability to use statistical results to interpret the phenomenon under analysis. Knowledge and competences acquired are assessed through a written exam held in a computer laboratory .

Teaching tools

Empirical case studies at the computer lab

Office hours

See the website of Cristina Bernini