DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Social Work
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year - Single / L-39 Curriculum and Single / L-40 Curriculum

PRINCIPI E METODI STATISTICI

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• Statistical Methods for Data Analysis. - STATISTICAL MEASURES
  
  The course aims to provide knowledge of the tools and techniques for the statistical analysis of the observed phenomena. The lessons will be aimed at acquiring a methodological and technical baggage that will allow the management, organization, processing and analysis of a database according to the monovariate data analysis.
• Statistical Methods for Data Analysis. - BIVARIATE STATISTICAL MEASURES
  
  Methodological and technical knowledge of the tools for the analysis of the relationships between two variables. Learning the logical-methodological abilities for the application of the concept of probability to statistical inference.
• INFERENTIAL STATISTICAL MEASURES
  
  Methodological and technical knowledge of the tools employed for the estimation and hypothesis tests about the parameters of one or two populations. Knowledge and learning of the techniques as tools of experimental investigation, oriented to solving research problems.

Detailed Course Content

• Statistical Methods for Data Analysis. - STATISTICAL MEASURES
  

  Origin and evolution of Statistics - Statistics and its role - Collective phenomena – Metric and non metric variables - The levels of measurement - Statistical surveys - Tabular and graphic representations - Measures of central tendency - Measures of variability – Concentration – Shape indices – Chebyshev inequality - lndex numbers.

• Statistical Methods for Data Analysis. - BIVARIATE STATISTICAL MEASURES
  

  Measures of the relationship between two variables - Linear Relations - The probability - Probability distributions and discrete random variables - Probability distributions and continuous random variables - sampling techniques and sampling distributions .

• INFERENTIAL STATISTICAL MEASURES
  

  Statistical inference - Estimation of parameters - Parameter estimation of a single population and comparisons between the two populations - Hypothesis testing of a single population and comparisons between the two populations - Test on frequency data , on the goodness of fit and analysis of the tables contingency - Inference on the linear regression model .

Textbook Information

• Statistical Methods for Data Analysis. - STATISTICAL MEASURES
  

  G. Cicchitelli (2012), Statistica. Principi e Metodi (seconda edizione), Pearson - Prentice Hall, Milano, cap. 1-8
  
  Borazzo F. P., Perchinunno P. (2007), Analisi statistiche con Excel, Paravia Bruno Mondatori Editore, Milano, cap. 1-4.

• Statistical Methods for Data Analysis. - BIVARIATE STATISTICAL MEASURES
  

  G. Cicchitelli (2012), Statistica. Principi e Metodi (seconda edizione), Pearson - Prentice Hall, Milano, cap. 1-8
  
  Borazzo F. P., Perchinunno P. (2007), Analisi statistiche con Excel, Paravia Bruno Mondatori Editore, Milano, cap. 1-4.

• INFERENTIAL STATISTICAL MEASURES
  

  G. Cicchitelli (2012), Statistica. Principi e Metodi (seconda edizione), Pearson - Prentice Hall, Milano.
  
  Borazzo F. P., Perchinunno P. (2007), Analisi statistiche con Excel, Paravia Bruno Mondatori Editore, Milano.