Administrative, Political and Economic Sciences

- Descriptive statistics The statistical population and the statistical units. Characters and their measurement scales. Univariate variates and variables. Frequency distributions. Graphics. Measures of position and variability. Bivariate statistical variates and bivariate statistical variables. Definitions, conjoint frequencies distribution, marginal distributions and conditional distributions. The covariance and its properties. Statistical dependence (and its measures). Elements of linear regression. - Inferential statistics Random experiments and their nature. The set of all the possible outcomes of a random experiment. The axiomatic definition of probability. Repeated trials of a random experiment. Random variables, definitions and classifications. Sampling distributions, point estimation, confidence intervals.

Basic knowledge of mathematics

Giuseppe Cicchitelli, Pierpaolo D'Urso, Marco Minozzo Statistica: principi e metodi. Ediz. Mylab. 2022.

In-Person Lectures.

- The student is required to pass a written test. -In addition to the written test students can ask for an optional oral examination, which can be accessed after a successful written test. -The script cover all the arguments of the lectures and consists in a series of numerical and theoretical exercises. - The duration of the written test is 60 minutes.The written test consists in 10 questions - During the written tests the student is only allowed to use a scientific calculator, therefore it is not allowed to use: textbooks and notes of all kinds, paper other than those distributed at the beginning of the trial and mobile phones.

Lectures 72 hours overall (9 cfu). The course consists of traditional lectures and practical exercises using data provided by the teacher. The lectures will be given in the classroom through the use of the classic blackboard, and video projector.