2014/2015

2014/2015

DM270

SECS-S/06 (METODI MATEMATICI DELL'ECONOMIA E DELLE SCIENZE ATTUARIALI E FINANZIARIE)

DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE ECONOMICHE E AZIENDALI

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS - ECONOMIA E MANAGEMENT INTERNAZIONALE

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

Primo Semestre (29/09/2014 - 20/12/2014)

6

44 ore di attività frontale

INGLESE

SCRITTO

LIJOI ANTONIO (titolare) - 6 CFU

Some basic notions and techniques of Statistical Inference will be recalled at the beginning of the course. Nonetheless, students will considerably benefit from some familiarity with problems of point estimation, interval estimation and hypothesis testing as they are commonly illustrated in introductory Statistics courses

The course aims at providing basic understanding of statistical data analysis and modelling using a hands-on approach.

Lectures are complemented by an introduction to the statistical software R.

- Linear regression
- Classification trees and smoothing splines
- Logistic regression
- Principal components
- Cluster Analysis

Class lectures consist in the projection and discussion of slides, which are made available online to students for download. The statistical methodologies that are described during lectures are always motivated by specific examples with real data.

Jank, W. (2011). Business Analytics for Managers. Springer, New York.
Afifi, A., May, S. and Clark, V.A. (2012). Practical Multivariate Analysis. Taylor and Francis,
Boca Raton.

Written test

Exam grade average: 26.2