Statistics, Economics, and Social Sciences

Learning goals The primary educational objective of the course is students' learning of the main applied aspects related to probability. Knowledge and understanding At the end of the course the students know and understand the main methods useful to solve the problems linked to the uncertainty. Applying knowledge and understanding At the end of the course students are able to formalize problems related to uncertainty in terms of probabilistic problems and to apply the specific methods of the probability to solve them. They are also able to model real phenomena through remarkable probabilistic structures. Making judgements Students develop critical skills through the application of theory to a wide range of probabilistic models. They also develop the critical sense through the comparison between alternative solutions to the same problem obtained using different methodological aspects. Communication skills Students, through the study and the practical exercises, acquire the technical-scientific language of the probability, which must be properly used in the oral test. Learning skills Students who pass the exam have learned the basic concepts of probability that allow them to deal with subsequent statistical area teaching (in particular the teaching of Statistical Inference).