- Docente: Massimo Ventrucci
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: SECS-S/01
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Rimini
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Corso:
Laurea Magistrale in
Tourism economics and management / economia e management del turismo (cod. 8609)
Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in Amministrazione e gestione d'impresa (cod. 8842)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
This course aims to provide basic statistical techniques for investigating socio-economic phenomena, with specific attention to the tourism domain. Particular emphasis is addressed to the descriptive and inferential techniques for data analysis also in a multidimensional context. At the end of this course, the student will be able to i) collect and organize tourism data; ii) arrange a sample survey and build a questionnaire for his/her own research purposes; iii) perform statistical analysis in the tourism field.
Contenuti
- Part 1: Statistical inference
Sample and population; sampling distribution of the mean; hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. LAB: R tutorial on data visualization, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals.
- Part 2: Regression
Simple linear regression; multiple linear regression; least squares estimation; inference for the model coefficient; model checking; anova; extension of linear regression. LAB: R tutorial on linear regression with real case studies.
- Part 3: Classification
Logistic regression, linear discriminant analysis, some notions on generalized linear models. LAB: R tutorial on classification techniques applied to real case studies.
Testi/Bibliografia
- Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, Global Edition, 5/E. Agresti (2017).
- An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R. James, Witten, Hastie and Tibshirani (2013).
Metodi didattici
Frontal lectures using slides, notes at the board/ipad. Laptop when using R for the applied tutorials.
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
The exam aims at evaluating students' understanding of the all topics included in the syllabus; it will be evaluated the ability to:
- produce statistical analysis (e.g. descriptive statistics, tests and model fitting);
- interpret the output of the analysis (including the output produced by the software R).
Exam is a quiz on EOL/Zoom. There will be questions on all the topics included in the syllabus; some questions are multiple choice while others require to enter a number (the use of software R is required to answer the questions requiring a number).
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Software: R (http://www.r-project.org/) and RStudio (https://rstudio.com/).
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Massimo Ventrucci
SDGs
L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.