Università degli Studi di Siena

PREPARATORY COURSE OF STATISTICS

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Course details

Academic year:

2020/2021

Available in academic year:

2020/2021

Type of course:

Characteristic of the class

Lesson type:

Compulsory

Department/structure:

Second cycle degree (Laurea Magistrale) in ECONOMICS

Department of Economics and statistics

Scientific-disciplinary sector:

STATISTICA (SECS-S/01)

Course language:

English

Course year:

Teaching staff:

PISANI CATERINA

Semester:

First Semester

Hours of lectures:

Requirements:

Knowledge of elementary mathematics. Basic notions of differential and integral calculus.

Learning objectives

The aim of the course is to provide students with the basic knowledge of main inferential statistical methods. In particular, at the end of the course, students will acquire the basic notion of point estimation, confidence intervals estimation and statistical hypothesis testing.

Contents

Probability: events, rules for events, probability space. Conditional probabilities. Independent events. Discrete and continuous random variables. Expectation and variance. Bivariate and multivariate random variables. Independent random variables.

Statistical inference: estimators and their properties. Confidence intervals. Parametric hypothesis testing. Chi-square tests.

Other courses

Course year: 1

ECONOMETRICS I & II
12 credits
FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS AND RISK MANAGEMENT
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
LABORATORY: PROGRAMMING SKILLS FOR ECONOMICS
3 credits - Various educational activities
MACROECONOMICS
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
MICROECONOMICS I & II
12 credits
OTHER ACTIVITIES
3 credits - Various educational activities
PRELIMINARY COURSE ON MATHEMATICS FOR ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS
Characteristic of the class
PREPARATORY COURSE OF STATISTICS
Characteristic of the class
PUBLIC ECONOMICS
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS
12 credits

Course year: 2

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
6 credits - Supplementary
COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
6 credits - Supplementary
ECONOMIC HISTORY (ADVANCED)
6 credits - Supplementary
ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION AND THEORIES OF THE FIRM
6 credits - Supplementary
GAME THEORY AND SOCIAL CHOICE
6 credits - Supplementary
GLOBAL COMPARATIVE POLITICS
6 credits - Supplementary
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
6 credits - Supplementary
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
6 credits - Supplementary
INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
6 credits - Characteristic of the class
MONETARY ECONOMICS
6 credits - Supplementary
OTHERS AT STUDENT'S CHOICE
12 credits - Optional
Post-Keynesian Economics
6 credits - Supplementary
THESIS
21 credits - A foreign language/final examination

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PREPARATORY COURSE OF STATISTICS

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