96800 - STATISTICAL SOFTWARE FOR BUSINESS (LABORATORY)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is able to use different statistical software useful to explore and analyse commonly used business data structures, as well as to manipulate and integrate data from different sources. Moreover, the student knows the modern tools for graphical representation currently used for Business Data Visualization. In particular the student is able: - to use SAS and R programming and tools to clean, arrange, select and manipulate business data, and the basics of using logical operators to pre-process data; - to use SAS and R programming and tools explore business data; - to program using Python language to manage applications, management systems and digital systems transversal to many industries and companies.

Course contents

Students will be trained to use some of the most popular software SAS, R-Studio and IBM-SPSS to manage business data structures and then they will be able to choose one of those listed above to use univariate and multivariate statistical approaches and other basic statistical analysis models. The student will be able to manage the practical applications of different statistical methods also in relation to the appropriate use of Phyton

Readings/Bibliography

- Field, Andy. 2009, Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (third edition), Sage Publication Ltd, London (UK).

- Davies, D. Tilman. 2020, The Book of R. The first course in programming and statistics, No Starch Press Inc., San Francisco, CA (USA).

- Company SAS, 2011, SAS/IML 9.3 User's Guide, SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC (USA).

 

Teaching methods

During class, the teacher will use slides and practical computer sessions at the PC laboratory

Assessment methods

• Standard Test is a written test with multiple closed answers (generally 3 or 5 closed answers) and will consist of 30, in 60 minutes, to produce the maximum final grade of 30/30; the test is considered passed with the minimum score of 18/30, i.e. 18 correct questions out of the 30 foreseen following the University of Bologna regulations. The test will have a composition of questions generated randomly not to allow identical sets of questions for each student admitted to the exams. The Test will be administered in the computer room through the UNIBO EOL system. Students can refuse the grade only once, there will be adequate time to communicate the acceptance and refusal of the grade, and therefore students are allowed to repeat the exam just a second time in agreement with the teacher.

Teaching tools

During the class sessions will be used slides, datasets, and scripts stored in the UNIBO Microsoft One-Drive

Links to further information

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Office hours

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