- Docente: Carlo Trivisano
- Credits: 10
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Carlo Trivisano (Modulo 1) Alessandro Baldi Antognini (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Political, Social and International Sciences (cod. 8853)
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from Feb 10, 2025 to May 29, 2025
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from Feb 10, 2025 to May 29, 2025
Learning outcomes
The course aims to offer students the basic tools for a quantitative reading of collective phenomena.
At the end of the course the students know fundamental concepts of statistics useful for the analysis of simple datasets. In particular, the main learning goal is to familiarize students with tools for choosing between synthetic measures, graphics, measures of relationships between two variables and with the fundamental tools of probability and statistics.
Course contents
MODULE 1
Introduction. Statistical surveys. Descriptive statistics vs inferential statistics. Types of statistical variables. Levels of measurements.
Frequency distributions. Graphical representations. Statistical indices.
Mean values. Measures of variability.
Bivariate frequency distributions. Marginal and conditional distributions. Statistical independence.
Covariance and correlation. Linear regression.
MODULE 2
Random events, uncertainty, axioms of Probability, conditional probability and Bayes theorem. Discrete and continuous random variables, Central Limit theorem.
Statistical models, population and sampling. Simple random samples and parametric inference. Parameters estimation and confidence intervals. Testing statistical hypotheses: normal and binomial models.
Readings/Bibliography
P. Newbold, W.L. Carlson e B. Thorne (2021) Statistica (IX ed.), Pearson-Prentice Hall.
Teaching methods
Each topic covered in the lectures will be followed by exercises in practical classes.
Assessment methods
Written test and oral examination
Grades:
<18 fail
18-23 pass
24-26 satisfactory
27-28 good
29-30 very good
30 e lode excellent
Office hours
See the website of Carlo Trivisano
See the website of Alessandro Baldi Antognini