ADVANCED STATISTICS

2019/20

Module Title: Advanced Statistics

Course Title: Quantitative Methods for Decision Making

Language: English

CFU: 5

Cohorts: MSc. Degree in Marketing and Global Markets, curriculum in Global Management

Semester: First semester, first cycle.

Total hours: 35 hours

Textbook: Sheldon Ross, Introductory Statistics (4^thEdition).

(older editions of the book will be in general fine -and arguably cheaper- although I will refer to the 4^thedition as far as exercises, examples or page numbers are concerned).

Additional material will be provided when needed.

Schedule and venues (To Be Updated):

Monday 

Wednesday 

Thursday

Outline of the module (a detailed syllabus will be uploaded, class by class, below):

• Using statistics to summarise datasets

• Essential review of probability theory

• Distribution of sampling statistics

• Estimation

• Testing statistical hypothesis

• Anova (only time permitting)

• Linear regression

Material:

Labs:

Syllabus (class by class):