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Teacher Marco Bittelli
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Credits 5
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SSD AGR/02
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Teaching Mode Traditional lectures
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Language Italian
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Campus of Bologna
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Degree Programme Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Planning and management of agro-territorial, forest and landscape (cod. 8532)
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.

Academic Year 2021/2022
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student is able to statistically interpret the relationships between variables and measured parameters. It is able to independently assess the quality and effectiveness of the results obtained, thanks to the appropriate use of tools and operational techniques, supported by experience in the field of statistics. The student will then have acquired the theory of the main basic statistical methods and their applications to case studies, using the programming language R.
Course contents
Section 1. Programming language R Install R and RStudio, Set up a work session, Create basic objects and functions on R. Recognize and create basic structures, objects and functions, Create vectors, matrices, arrays, lists, dataframe farms, Convert objects to R, Use logical operators, Using conditional statements or control structures, Creating functions, Uploading files to R, Manipulating vectors, matrices, datasets. Handle missing values, Handle duplicate data, Manipulate dates, Use some basic statistics functions, Create simple graphs with basic functions, Create graphs with ggplot2.
Section 2. Statistical Applications. Basic statistics, probability, probability distributions, descriptive statistics, linear and non-linear models, inferential statistics, hypothesis tests, analysis of variance, multivariate statistics.
Readings/Bibliography
Class notes and computer codes
Teaching methods
In class lessons and programming exercises
Assessment methods
Written exam
Teaching tools
R language and coding
Office hours
See the website of Marco Bittelli