- Docente: Adelajda Matuka
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: SECS-S/01
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Laurea Magistrale in
Economics and Public Policy (cod. 5945)
Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in Applied Economics and Markets (cod. 5969)
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dal 09/04/2025 al 21/05/2025
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
This course provides theory and tools for using R as a programming language in economic research, for the purposes of visualizing and analyzing data
Contenuti
Introduction to R and RStudio.
Arithmetics, mathematics and logic in R. Data structures in R.
Creation and management of variables and dataframes. Data importing.
Descriptive analysis of data and graphical representations.
Statistical inference for the mean of a gaussian population and for a proportion.
Comparison of means of two population.
Linear regression.Testi/Bibliografia
The following books are freely available on the internet.
Wickham, Hadley, and Grolemund, Garrett. R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data. Stati Uniti, O'Reilly Media, 2016. https://r4ds.had.co.nz
Måns Thulin, Modern statistics with R, 2021. http://modernstatisticswithr.com/
Metodi didattici
Class lectures.
Each student will need to bring his/her own laptop after installing R and RStudio in this order:
install R from http://cran.r-project.org/
install RStudio from http://rstudio.org/download/desktopModalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
The exam will be a practical test of data analysis in a computer laboratory.
The structure of the exam will be similar to the one of the examples given in Virtuale.
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
- material provided by the lecturer on Virtuale https://virtuale.unibo.it/
- statistical software R https://www.r-project.org/
- integrated development environment RStudio www.rstudio.com
Students with disability or specific learning disabilities (DSA) are required to make their condition known to find the best possibile accomodation to their needs.
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Adelajda Matuka
SDGs

L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.