- Docente: Daniela Cocchi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-S/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Statistics, Economics and Business (cod. 8876)
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from Sep 20, 2022 to Oct 27, 2022
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student knows how to manage complex sampling plans. She/he will be able to plan complex surveys and to analyze data with advanced statistical tools, to assess and communicate the uncertainty on the obtained estimates.
Course contents
Sampling in finite populations: the frame. Population and sample. Samping plans and the random variables that manage the selection.
Inference in complex units of any dimension. Role of the intraclass correlation coefficient. Inference for cmplex units selected with varying probaility. Ratio and regression adjustment in sampling complex units. Approximated properties of ratio and regression estimators seen from the residuals.
Finite population inference as a predictive problem and superpopulation models.
Multistage sampling.
Readings/Bibliography
A syllabus with most of the topics of the course can be downloaded. It contains the topic of the corese and many examples and exercises.
Also a file containing the main formulae to use for solving exercise may be downloaded.
Further references will be given during the course.
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Written and oral test
Teaching tools
A file containing the most important formulae can be downloaded
Office hours
See the website of Daniela Cocchi