Economics and communication for management and innovation

Knowledge and understanding This course aims at introducing students with useful statistical methods for describing and analysing economic and business data. Applying knowledge and understanding At the end of the course the student will be able to: - summarize economic and business data through the use of descriptive statistics tools; - be familiar with data sources and methods; - be familiar with various tools for analyzing the relationships between variables; - use these tools for studying business and economic data. Making judgements By the end of the Course the students will be able to apply descriptive statistics to business and economic data for the study of specific firms’ situations. Communication skills By the end of the Course the students will be able to understand different data types to be used for exploring the relationships between the various socio-economic phenomena. Learning skills By the end of the Course the students will have acquired basic statistics concepts in order to deal with advanced statistical methods and courses in inferential and multivariate statistics.