- Docente: Simone Baldi
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Tourism Economics and Management (cod. 8609)
Learning outcomes
The goal of this course is to bring to the students' attention the basic tools of statistics, which will be very useful for them during their studies.
Furthermore, this course aims to lead the group of students enrolled in the TEAM degree program to the same level of mathematical and statistical knowledge before the "traditional" lectures begin.
Course contents
The course focuses on the basic aspects of descriptive statistics:
- type of variables (qualitative disconnected-ordinal and quantitative discrete - continuous)
- frequency distribution (absolute, relative and percentage),
- Mode, mean, median and other tools to describe phenomena,
- Bivariate analysis through use of appropriate indexes, such as Chi Squared and Pearson R
- introduction to linear regression.
- Basic concepts of time series will be briefly mentioned
At the end of the crash course students will be able to analyze statistical phenomena of simple interpretation, with particular reference to the analysis in the tourism sector
Readings/Bibliography
Books are not required to attend this course.
Nevertheless following books are suggested to all those who will attend Statistics For Social Sciences in the second semester:
- Paul Newbold Carlson William Statistics for Business and Economics, Pearson, 2012
- Alan Bryman Social Research Methods, Oxford, 2015
Teaching methods
In the first part of the academic year, lectures will be done in class, with examples in the tourism sector. Laboratorio lessons can be added when necessary to support the Statistics for Social Sciences study
Assessment methods
This course does not provide exams for passing.
However, following the crash course is recommended and useful in order to face in the best way the examination of Statistics for Social Sciences and other compulsory examinations of the degree course.
Teaching tools
Lectures are carried out with the aid of slides, the exercises are done on the blackboard.
Office hours
See the website of Simone Baldi