37321 - Statistics for Data Analysis

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration and Management (cod. 8842)

Learning outcomes

Students will learn how to face some basic problems of statistical inference, simple and multiple regression, and to draw a sample from a population with some fixed properties.

Course contents

Some elements of exploratory statistics. Statistical inference: point estimation, confidence intervals, hypotheses testing. The main sampling methods. Linear regression with two and more variables.

Readings/Bibliography

Maurizio Brizzi. Introduzione alla probabilità e all'inferenza statistica (seconda edizione). Casa editrice libreriauniversitaria.it, Limena (PD), 2014. Some working sheets written in English will be eventually available.

Teaching methods

Front lessons and laborarory exercise sessions.

Assessment methods

Written examination with numeric application of the methods presented during the course. Final oral test.

Teaching tools

Some working sheets will be available to students.

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Brizzi