22902550-2 - LABORATORIO DI ANALISI DEI DATI

The aim of the course is to provide students with the statistical tools for a self-sufficient capacity for processing and analyzing data in the field of social research. By privileging the application aspects of statistics, the course intends to learn the conceptual bases and the functioning of the most common techniques of exploratory statistics, both univariate and bivariate.

At the end of the course the student:
- has become familiar with the basic concepts of Social Statistics
- is able to carry out exploratory data analysis and use the main statistical indicators for social sciences.


The objective of the laboratory is the implementation of the main statistical functions of Excel.

At the conclusion of the laboratory the student is able to perform data analysis with the help of Excel.
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Programma

The course will focus on the main statistical function on Excel. In particular:
Pivot tables . Plots: bar charts, pie charts, histograms, plots for two variables. Position indexes: mean, mediann and mode. Variability indexes: variance and deviazione standard. Covariance, correlation, regression.

Testi Adottati

Students can refer to the material available on professor's web site

Modalità Erogazione

Frontal lesson in the lab of the Department of Education

Modalità Frequenza

Frequency is recommended but not mandatory

Modalità Valutazione

test on Excel in laboratory