STATISTICS

The course provides basic concepts in statistics (summary statistics, probability calculus, statistical inference, linear statistical modelling). These essential tools of statistics theory are applied for data analysis in the social sciences and demography.

The student has to be able to select the appropriate statistical tools to analyse data and draw conclusions based on the results of suitable statistical analyses.

The student is expected to learn the technical language needed to understand/write properly a statistical report in the area of the social sciences and demography.

Why should anyone study Statistics?

Numerical Measures of Central Tendency. Numerical Measures of Variability. Bivariate Relationships.

Continuous Random Variables. Probability Distributions for Continuous Random Variables. The Normal Distribution.

Sampling Distributions. The Concept of Sampling Distribution. The Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean and the Central Limit Theorem.

Identifying and Estimating the Target Parameter.

Models and methods of Demography. The distribution of various age groups in a population. Population ageing. International migrations.

In Italian:Agresti Alan; Franklin Christine. Statistica: l'arte e la scienza d'imparare dai dati. Edizione con accesso MyLab. Pearson, 2016

or in English:Agresti Alan; Franklin Christine. Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning From Data, Pearson, 2013

A. Rosina, A. De Rose - Demografia, EGEA