Academic year2016/17
CourseBUSINESS STUDIES
Code033PP
Credits9
PeriodSemester 2
LanguageItalian
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) |
| STATISTICA | SECS-S/01 | LEZIONI | 63 | |
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Knowledge
Students are expected to acquire:
some knowloedge of descriptive statistics, such as central values, measure of variances, frequency tables, linear interpolation, correlation and other measures of relation;
some knowledge of probability with particular focus on the most common random variables;
basic knowledge of the statistical inference, in particular point and interval estimation and test of hypothesis.
Assessment criteria of knowledge
In the written exam (2 hours, 6 exercises), the student must demonstrate his/her knowledge of the course material and to be able to solve exercises of descriptive and inferential statistics.
Methods:
Teaching methods
Delivery: face to face
Learning activities:
- attending lectures
- participation in seminar
- individual study
- Practical
Attendance: Advised
Teaching methods:
Syllabus
Frequency tables, averages and weighted averages (arithmetic, geometric, harmonic), median, quantiles, variance and standard error, Pearson correlation, Chi^2 and V-Cramer indexes, decomposition of the variance;
Introduction to probability and random variables such as uniform, Bernoulli, Binomial, Gaussian, t-Student and chi-square;
Introduction to sampling designs and sampling distribution of the mean (and related theorems) under simple random sample;
Point and interval estimation of the mean;
Test of hypotesys on the mean.
Bibliography
Borra, S. e A. DiCiaccio, "Statistica", McGraw-Hill, Milano
Recommended reading includes the following works:
Pelosi, M. e T. M. Sandifer, "Introduzione alla Statistica", McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2004;
Domenico Piccolo, “Statistica”, Il Mulino, Bologna 1998;
Giuseppe Cicchitelli, “Statistica. Principi e metodi”, Pearson education, 2008;
F. Giusti, “Introduzione alla Statistica”, Loescher, 1995 (for descriptive statistics);
T.H. Wonnacott e R.J. Wonnacott, “Introduzione alla statistica”, FrancoAngeli, 1995 (for inference);
Updated: 14/11/2016 17:27
