SISS - EMbeDS-education/ComputingDataAnalysisModeling20232024 GitHub Wiki
This is the home page of the course SISS: Statistical Inference for the Social Sciences.
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Instructors:
- Chiara Seghieri ([email protected]),
- Costanza Tortu
Language: Italian
Duration: 20h, TBD, Fall, 2023.
Description: This course will provide a review of the basic elements of statistical inference as applied to realistic problems and real data -- integrating the presentation of statistical theory with practice in data processing and analysis using the STATA Software. An introduction to the R software will be also provided. The content will include topics selected from the following areas:
- Planning a quantitative research study & descriptive statistics
- Point estimates, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing
- Linear regression
- Introduction to the Generalized Linear Model with binary outcome
Compared to traditional courses on Statistics, this course will provide a practically oriented approach to learning with a focus on interpretation of statistical results.
Materials: Statistics / David Freedman Robert Pisani (et Al.), a copy is available at the Sant’Anna
library.
Lohr, S. L. (2021). Sampling: design and analysis. Chapman and Hall/CRC.
Slides and other support materials for this course will be made available through this repository; see links in the right-sidebar.
Attendance: We expect lectures and Practicum sessions to be held in presence. Room: Via Maffi, Aula L'EMbeDS.
Prerequisites: A working knowledge of probability and descriptive statistics.