- Docente: Angela Montanari
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: SECS-S/01
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Laurea in Scienze statistiche (cod. 8873)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
By the end of the course module the student should know the basic themes of statistics either from a methodological and an applied perspective. In particular, the student should be able to: - summarize statistical data using distributions and graphs - select and compute the most appropriate summary statistics (mean values and variability measures) - measure the strength of the association between two characters observed on the same set of units.
Contenuti
During the course the following topics will be addressed
· Statistical units and variables
· The concept of natural variation
· Quantitative and qualitative data
· Observed and relative frequencies
· Statistical distributions
· Mean values (mode, median, quantiles, arithmetic, harmonic, geometric, quadratic mean)
· Variability measures (range, interquartile range, deviance, variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variability, Gini's ratio)
· Graphical representations of data
· Relationship between two characters
· measure of independence and its standardized forms
· Simple linear regression and correlation; R2
Testi/Bibliografia
Handnotes on IOL
Making sense of data through statistics, Dorit Nevo, Legerity press
Metodi didattici
Lessons and tutorials
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Written exam
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Tutorials and practicals
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Angela Montanari