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The course of Statistics and Business Statistics aims at providing students with the fundamentals of statistics methodology used in economic and business studies. The main concepts discussed in the course are as follows: descriptive statistics, probability, linear simple regression models, and multiple regression models. The lessons include some application of statistical tools to business and economic cases. |
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Basic knowledge of mathematics |
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The course aims at illustratig critically the basic elements of the statistical methodology and provide studnets with the basic tools for the quantitative analysis in the fiels of business studies |
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The lessons cover the following topics: Introduction and basics in statistics; Organising data; Visualising data; Numerical descriptive measures; Basic probability; Less basic probability; Discrete probability distributions; Binomial and Poisson probability distributions; The normal distribution; Sampling and sampling distributions; Confidence interval estimation; Fundamentals of hypothesis testing: one-sample tests; Two-sample tests; One-way Anova: hints; Chi-square tests; Simple linear regression; Introduction to multiple regression. |
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Freedman, Pisani, Purves (2007). Statistics, 4th Edition. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
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There will be practical exercises at the end of each macro-area in order to apply concepts and methods discussed in the lessons. |
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