Agresti A., Finlay B. (2012), Metodi statistici di base e avanzati per le
scienze sociali, Pearson.
English version:
Agresti A., Finlay B. (2009), Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. 4th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall
Learning Objectives
To allow students to read, to interpret, and to analyze statistical data from complete and sample surveys.
Prerequisites
Elements of algebra and mathematics taught in secondary schools
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Type of Assessment
Written exam
Course program
Collecting informations. Description of qualitative and quantitative variables. One and two-way frequency distributions.
Events, probability, axioms. Conditional probability and some key theorems. Random variables: Bernoulli, Binomial, Normal.
Random sampling. Sampling distributions. Point and interval estimation.
Estimators and their properties. Confidence intervals.
Theory of hypothesis testing. Tests for a mean and a proportion.