STATISTICS - 86065

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ID:
86065
Dettaglio:
SSD: Statistics Duration: 72 CFU: 9
Located in:
BERGAMO
Url:
ECONOMICS - 86-R/PERCORSO COMUNE Year: 1
Year:
2025

Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (16/02/2026 - 29/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

The course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of the basic concepts of the Descriptive Statistics and the basics of probability (probability of events). Students will attain a good knowledge of the topics covered during the course and will be able to consciously use the tools acquired. The course aims also to provide students with a critical understanding of the basic concepts of the Inferential Statistics: point estimation; confidence intervals; parametric hypothesis testing

Course Prerequisites

Recommended: Elements of Mathematics

Teaching Methods

The course is taught through class lectures.

Assessment Methods

The exam is in written form. It consists in several exercises (usually 6-8). Students have about 2 hours to complete it. The student must identify proper techniques to be used, among those learned in the course.

Contents

I) DATA ANALYSIS 1. Information in statistical data. 2. Frequency distributions. 3. Data displays. 4. Measures of Central Tendency; measures of dispersion; indices of shape. 5. Concentration. 6. Descriptive methods in regression and correlation 7. Covariance and correlation. II) PROBABILITY 1. Probability: Frequentist and subjectivist approaches. 2. Probability of events. 3. Conditional probability. 4. Bayes' rule. 5. Distribution functions. 6. Discrete Probability Distributions 7. Continuous Probability Distributions. 9. Simple random sampling and sampling distributions. III) STATISTICAL INFERENCE. Point and interval estimation. Hypothesis testing


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Attending classes is strongly recommended. Non-attending students are strongly invited to contact the teachers to get help for preparing the exam.

Degrees

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ECONOMICS - 86-R 
Bachelor's Degree
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STATISTICS