Scheda insegnamento
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Docente Sara Capacci
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Crediti formativi 5
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SSD SECS-S/03
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Modalità didattica Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
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Lingua di insegnamento Inglese
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Campus di Bologna
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Corso Laurea Magistrale in Health economics and management (cod. 5902)
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Orario delle lezioni dal 19/09/2022 al 25/10/2022
Anno Accademico 2022/2023
Contenuti
- Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency, measures of dispersions and graphical displays
- Random variables and probability distributions, the Normal Distribution, the Standard Normal Distribution, the Student’s T distribution
- Populations and samples, point estimation and confidence intervals for the population mean for the case of known and unknown variance
- Hypothesis testing for the mean and for the difference between two means
Testi/Bibliografia
- Rosner, B. (2016) “Fundamentals of Biostatistics”, Cengage.
- Agresti, A. (2018) "Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences", 5th edition. Pearson
- Plichta Kellar, S.B. and Kelvin, E.A. (2013) "Munro's statistical methods for health care research”. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Metodi didattici
During the course theoretical and practical sessions will be held. During practical sessions empirical knowledge of the proposed methods will be reached through real-world case studies and exercises performed using Microsoft Excel and Stata.
Stata is available in all the computer labs in the Campus. Moreover, a Campus licence of Stata is available to all students enrolled in the course.
The UNIBO e-learning platform (VIRTUALE) will be used to share teaching materials and to assign periodical home assignments to students.
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
The course has a required cumulative final examination. You must take, and pass, the final examination to receive a passing grade in the course. The final exam will be a written test (computer based). Students are required to enrol using Almaesami.
The test consists in three sections:
1) multiple choice/short-answers section (35% of Exam Score, 6 questions);
2) free response section requiring interpretatin of statistical outputs (20% of Exam Score, 2 questions);
3) practical section with Excel and Stata (45% of Exam Score, 5 questions). The test duration is 75 minutes.
(Please notice that the test structure might change; any modifications will be communicated in class).
The grading system is on a 0-30 range, the following grid applies:
- <18 failed
- 18-23 sufficient
- 24-27 good
- 28-30 very good
- 30 cum laude honors
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
The following tools will be available on the UNIBO e-learning platform (VIRTUALE)
- Slides/lecture notes: summarising theoretical concepts shown in class
- Do files, lecture notes and Stata datasets: with these tools students are able to follow the practical sessions step by step and to completely replicate them at home.
- Exercises and Solutions which will be regularly proposed to students
- Miscellanea: exercises, focus notes, sample tests will be uploaded when needed
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Sara Capacci