37321 - Statistics for Data Analysis

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Monia Lupparelli
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: SECS-S/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Accounting (cod. 0900)

Course contents

The course is focused on the following topics:

 

1 - Contingency tables:

two and three-way tables, measure of association for qualitative variables, multi-way contingency tables, multinomial distribution, marginal and conditional distributions

 

2 - Multivariate Normal Distribution:

density function, linear combination of random variables, marginal and conditional distributions, measures of association for continuous variables

Readings/Bibliography

- A. Agresti e B. Finlay (2009). Statistica per le scienze sociali. Pearson - Prentice Hall.

(Chapter 8)

- D. Piccolo (1998). Statistica. Il Mulino
(Chapter 7, paragrafi 1-5)
(Chapter 10)
(Chapter 11)
(Chapter 12, Paragraph 9)

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures

Assessment methods

Written exam

Teaching tools

Course notes downloadable from the lecturer's web page

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

Links to further information

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

Office hours

See the website of Monia Lupparelli