Francesco GIORDANO | Statistics
Francesco GIORDANO Statistics
cod. 0212400007
STATISTICS
| 0212400007 | |
| DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS | |
| EQF6 | |
| ECONOMICS | |
| 2024/2025 |
| OBBLIGATORIO | |
| YEAR OF COURSE 2 | |
| YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2016 | |
| AUTUMN SEMESTER |
| SSD | CFU | HOURS | ACTIVITY | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SECS-S/01 | 10 | 60 | LESSONS |
| Exam | Date | Session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIORDANO | 16/12/2024 - 09:00 | SESSIONE ORDINARIA | |
| GIORDANO | 16/12/2024 - 09:00 | SESSIONE DI RECUPERO | |
| GIORDANO | 14/01/2025 - 09:00 | SESSIONE ORDINARIA | |
| GIORDANO | 14/01/2025 - 09:00 | SESSIONE DI RECUPERO |
| Objectives | |
|---|---|
| KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING. - ACQUIRE THE MAIN TOOLS OF DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE. - ACQUIRE MAIN TOOLS FOR BUSINESS ORIENTED DECISION MAKING. - ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE OF STATISTICAL MODELING WITH APPLICATIONS TO REAL DATASETS. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING. STUDENTS WILL BE EXPOSED TO CASE STUDIES TO UNDERSTAND THE ADVANTAGES GAINED FROM APPLYING STATISTICAL ANALYSIS TO QUANTITATIVE PROBLEMS ARISING FROM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. |
| Prerequisites | |
|---|---|
| MATHEMATICS. |
| Contents | |
|---|---|
| PART I (20 HOURS: 17 HOURS OF THEORETICAL LESSONS AND 3 HOURS OF EXCERCISES LESSONS). DATA ANALYSIS: STATISTICAL SURVEY, FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR UNIVARIATE DATA, LOCATION MEASURES, SCALE MEASURES, SHAPE MEASURES (SYMMETRY AND KURTOSIS), DISTRIBUTIONS FOR BIVARIATE DATA. PART II (20 HOURS: 16 HOURS OF THEORETICAL LESSONS AND 4 HOURS OF EXCERCISES LESSONS). PROBABILITY: INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTARY PROBABILITY THEORY, RANDOM VARIABLES (CONTINUOUS AND DISCRETE), BASIC PROBABILITY MODELS, ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION TO LIMIT THEOREMS FOR SEQUENCE OF RANDOM VARIABLES. PART III (20 HOURS: 15 HOURS OF THEORETICAL LESSONS AND 5 HOURS OF EXCERCISES LESSONS). INFERENCE: PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION, INTRODUCTION TO ESTIMATION THEORY, POINT ESTIMATION, HYPOTHESIS TESTING, CONFIDENCE INTERVALS. |
| Teaching Methods | |
|---|---|
| ALL LECTURES (60 HOURES) WILL BE HELD IN CLASSROMM. DURING THE COURSE THEORETICAL TOPICS ARE BALANCED WITH THEIR PRACTICAL ISSUES. AT LEAST FOUR LECTURES WILL BE DEVOTED TO CASE STUDIES. |
| Verification of learning | |
|---|---|
| THE FINAL EXAM IS CHARACTERIZED BY TWO PARTS: THE WRITTEN AND THE ORAL EXAMINATION. THE FIRST PART (1H AND 30 MIN) INCLUDES EXERCISES ON THE THREE MODULES OF THE COURSE WHEREAS THE ORAL PART (ABOUT 15 MIN) IS BASED ON AN INTERVIEW. THE ORAL INTERVIEW CAN BE TAKEN IF THE STUDENT HAS PASSED THE WRITTEN EXAM WITH A MINIMUM MARK OF 18. THE FINAL MARK IS THE MEAN OF THE MARKS OBTAINED AT THE FIRST AND SECOND PART OF THE EXAM. |
| Texts | |
|---|---|
| CASELLA G. AND BERGER R.L., STATISTICAL INFERENCE, DUXBURY ADVANCED SERIES. |
| More Information | |
|---|---|
| FURTHER MATERIAL WILL BE PUBLISHED ON THE WEBSITE. |
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