- Docente: Alessandro Baldi Antognini
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-S/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and business (cod. 9202)
Learning outcomes
The knowledge of the fundamental tools of probability and statistics.
Course contents
Part 1 – DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Data and variable. Description of the observed distribution of a categorical/quantitative variable. Description of the observed distribution of two variable and contingency tables. Linear relationship between two quantitative variables.
Part 2 – PROBABILITY
Random events, uncertainty, axioms of Probability, conditional probability and Bayes theorem. Discrete and continuous random variables, Central Limit theorem.
Part 3- STATISTICAL INFERENCEStatistical models, population and sampling. Simple random samples and parametric inference. Parameters estimation and confidence intervals. Testing statistical hypotheses: normal and binomial models.
Readings/Bibliography
S. Borra e A. Di Ciaccio (2008) Statistica. Metodologie per le Scienze Economiche e Sociali (II ed.), McGraw-Hill.
P. Newbold, W.L. Carlson e B. Thorne (2007) Statistica, Pearson-Prentice Hall.
Teaching methods
Lectures, problem classes, homework
Assessment methods
Written test.
Teaching tools
Notes, exercises and slides
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Baldi Antognini