33508 - CRASH COURSE IN STATISTICS

Anno Accademico 2018/2019

  • Docente: Cinzia Franceschini
  • SSD: SECS-S/03
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Direzione aziendale (cod. 0897)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Basic knowledge of statistics: mean dependence, linear dependence, absolute dependence. Statistic tests, basic probability.

Contenuti

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will have a good knowledge of basic and advanced multivariate statistical techniques useful to conduct statistical analysis on real dataset. The course blends theory and practice for a better understanding of the subject.

Course contents

Two-way tables: joint, marginal and conditional distributions

Association: independence, chi-square test

Concordance: covariance, correlation

Data matrix

Mean vector

Covariance matrix

Concentration matrix

Simple Linear Regression

Residual plot

Multivariate regression

Partial correlation

Testi/Bibliografia

Izenman, A. J. (2008). Modern Multivariate Statistical Techniques: Regression, Classification, and Manifold Learning, Springer.

Thomas H. Wonnacott, Ronald J. Wonnacott , Introductory Statistics, 5th Edition, Wiley

Slides of the course

Metodi didattici

Frontal Lectures

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

No final test, this is a crash course.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Blackboard, slides.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Cinzia Franceschini