- Docente: Simone Baldi
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Tourism economics and management / economia e management del turismo (cod. 8609)
Contenuti
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
Testi/Bibliografia
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
Metodi didattici
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
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
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.
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Lectures are carried out with the aid of slides, the exercises are done on the blackboard.
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Simone Baldi