LABORATORIO STATISTICA PER LE SCIENZE SOCIALI

Giuseppe GIORDANO LABORATORIO STATISTICA PER LE SCIENZE SOCIALI

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DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE POLITICHE, SOCIALI E DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
EQF6
SOCIOLOGY
2017/2018



OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 1
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2011
PRIMO SEMESTRE
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
320LAB
Objectives
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO USE A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SOFTWARE. IN PARTICULAR, TO READ DIFFERENT KIND OF FILES (.XLS; .CSV; TXT; .SPS); TO MAKE SIMPLE TRANSFORMATION OF VARIABLES AND CODING.
TO BUILD SIMPLE AND DOUBLE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS.

KNOWLEDGE AND COMPLIANCE CAPACITY:
ANALYZE DATA AND TABLES WITH UNIVARIATE AND BIVARIATE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS.
REALIZE GRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS COHERENT WITH THE DATA AND THEIR SCALE OF MEASUREMENT.

CAPACITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND COMPRESSION:
A REPORT OF RESULTS WITH CRITICAL AND VERBAL CAPACITY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF THE RESULTS REFERRING TO THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND THE CONTEXT OF APPLICATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCES WILL BE REALIZED.
Prerequisites
OFFICE SUITE BASIC KNOWLEDGE.
Contents
FROM THE SOCIAL PHENOMENON TO THE STATISTICAL MODEL: TYPES OF DATA, ROLE AND NATURE OF VARIABLES.
READING DATA FILES FROM DIFFERENT FORMATS.
CODE OF VARIABLES, SUMMARY INDICATORS OF STATISTICAL VARIABLES. SIMPLE AND DOUBLE FREQUENCY TABLES.
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS WITH STATISTICAL SOFTWARE.
DESCRIPTIVE BIVARIES STATISTICS.
STUDY OF ASSOCIATION, CORRELATION AND REGRESSION.
Teaching Methods
LECTURES AND PRACTICE IN COMPUTER LABORATORY.
Verification of learning
THE EXAMINATION CONSISTS OF A DISCUSSION ON A REPORT PREPARED THROUGH STATISTICAL SOFTWARE.
STUDENTS HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF THEORY AND PRACTICAL SKILLS OF STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR UNIVARIATE AND BIVARIATE DATA.
Texts
STATISTICA, LEVINE DAVID M.; KREHBIEL TIMOTHY C.; BERENSON MARK L. 2011, 5 ED., EDITOREPEARSON (COLLANA STATISTICA)
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