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Economia e gestione delle imprese (Academic Year 2019/2020) - Financial management

Statistics and business statistics



Videolesson

Lesson n. 1: Introduction and basics in statistics
   Introduction

   How statistics is fundamental to business

   The basic concepts and vocabulary of statistics
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Lesson n. 2: Organizing data
   How to interpret statistical tables

   Typology of data

   Frequency distributions
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Lesson n. 3: Visualizing data
   Visualizing data

   How to draw charts for categorical data

   How to draw charts for numerical data
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Lesson n. 4: Numerical descriptive measures – Part I Go to this lesson Massimo Tivegna
Lesson n. 5: Numerical descriptive measures - Part II
   introduction

   sample variance and standard deviation

   coefficient of variation
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Lesson n. 6: Numerical descriptive measures - Part III
   introduction

   the quantiles

   visual representations of median and quantiles
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Lesson n. 7: Numerical descriptive measures - Part IV
   five-number representation

   sample parameters and population parameters

   an empirical rule for distributions
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Lesson n. 8: Numerical descriptive measures - Part V
   outliers and how to spot them

   covariance and correlation
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Lesson n. 9: Basic probability
   introduction

   basic probability concepts and related matters

   the terminology of events

   additive probability

   conditional probability
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Lesson n. 10: Less basic probability
   introduction

   marginal probability

   bayes
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Lesson n. 11: Discrete probability distributions
   introduction

   the properties of a discrete probability distribution

   to compute the expected value variance and standard error of a probability distribution
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Lesson n. 12: Binomial and poisson probability distributions – Part I
   to compute the expected value variance and standard error of a probability distribution

   binomial probability distribution

   to compute probabilities from the binomial distribution
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Lesson n. 13: Binomial and poisson probability distributions – Part II
   introduction

   binomial distribution formula

   how to use the poisson distribution

   to compute probabilities from the poisson distribution
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Lesson n. 14: The normal distribution - Part I
   the normal distribution

   how to move from the normal to the standard normal and why

   comparing x and z unitis
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Lesson n. 15: The normal distribution - Part II
   introduction

   introduction to the standard normal

   how to compute probabilities from the normal and standard normal distributions

   given a normal probability find the x value
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Lesson n. 16: The normal distribution - Part III
   introduction

   how to establish whether a data set is normally distribution. an example

   how to use the normal probability plot to determine whether a set of data is approximately normally distributed
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Lesson n. 17: Sampling and sampling distributions – Part I
   introduction

   the concept of the sampling distribution and the role of the sample mean and its standard error

   developing a sampling distribution

   sampling distribution properties
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Lesson n. 19: Sampling and sampling distributions – Part III
   introduction

   the importance and use of the central limit theorem

   population proportions
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Lesson n. 20: Confidence interval estimation - Part I
   introduction

   the concept of point estimates and of confidence intervals and their usefulness and limits

   confidence intervals for the means and for proportions

   estimation process
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Lesson n. 21: Confidence interval estimation - Part II
   introduction

   how to compute confidence intervals depending on whether the standard error σ is known or unknown

   an introduction of student’s “t” when σ is unknown
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Lesson n. 22: Confidence interval estimation - Part III
   introduction

   to construct and interpret confidence interval

   how to determine the sample size
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Lesson n. 23: Fundamentals of hypothesis testing: one-sample tests - Part I
   introduction

   null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis

   compare confidence intervals with hypothesis testing

   testing errors of type 1 and type 2
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Lesson n. 24: Fundamentals of hypothesis testing: one-sample tests - Part II
   confidence decisions in hypothesis testing

   type I & II error relationship

   six steps in hypothesis testing when σ is known
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Lesson n. 25: Fundamentals of hypothesis testing: one-sample tests - Part III
   introduction

   use of p-value in hypothesis testing

   t test of hypothesis testing for the mean when σ is unknown
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Lesson n. 26: Fundamentals of hypothesis testing: one-sample tests - Part IV
   introduction

   one-tail tests and p-value approach

   tail test for proportions
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Lesson n. 27: Two-sample tests - Part I
   introduction

   difference between two means

   pooled-variance t test example
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Lesson n. 28: Two-sample tests - Part II
   introduction

   hypothesis testing, µ1-µ2, with σ1 and σ2 unknown, not assumed equal

   the paired difference test and confidence intervals in two populations means for two related samples

   testing and building confidence intervals for two different population proportions
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Lesson n. 29: Two-sample tests - Part III
   introduction

   two population proportions

   the “f”distribution to test for the difference between two population variances
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Lesson n. 30: One-way Anova: hints
   introduction

   one-way ANOVA
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Lesson n. 31: Chi-square tests - Part I
   introduction

   contingency tables

   the chi 2 test for the difference between two proportions
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Lesson n. 32: Chi-square tests - Part II
   introduction

   the chi 2 test for differences in more than two proportions

   the chi 2 test for independence
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Lesson n. 33: Simple linear regression - Part I
   introduction

   how to measure direction and strength of these relationships

   how to estimate coefficients in regression analysis
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Lesson n. 34: Simple linear regression - Part II
   introduction

   the meaning of the regression coefficients bo and b1

   measures of goodness of fit of the regression
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Lesson n. 35: Simple linear regression - Part III
   introduction

   residual analysis

   the durbin- watson statistics to detect autocorrelation
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Lesson n. 36: Simple linear regression - Part IV
   introduction

   “t” test

   “f” test

   confidence intervals
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Lesson n. 37: Introduction to multiple regression - Part I
   Introduction

   how to develop a multiple regression model

   how to interpret the regression coefficients

   prediction with a multiple regression model

   coefficient of multiple determination
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Lesson n. 38: Introduction to multiple regression - Part II
   introduction

   the coefficient of multiple determination

   statistical significance of the entire model

   statistical assumptions of the multiple regression model
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Lesson n. 39: Introduction to multiple regression - Part III
   introduction

   statistical significance “t” tests

   dummy variables
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Lesson n. 40: Summing-up and beyond
   broad areas covered in the course

   what is statistics useful for

   beware normality

   from statistics to econometrics
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