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Applied Statistics

Lecturer: Cristina Mollica (9CFU)

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Lecturer: Cristina MollicaContact:cristina.mollica@uniroma1.itOffice: 4th floor(room 428, Dep. MEMOTEF)Office hour:

Monday, 14:30 - 15:30.Online assistance by e-mail,on Meet or Zoom.At the end of each class.

Personal web-page:https://web.uniroma1.it/memotef/users/mollica-cristina

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The course will be mainly focused on

STATISTICAL MODELS

and their applications in economy and marketing.

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Timetable and links on Zoom

Monday 16:00 - 18:00 (Room Marrama, 6th Floor), Link:https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/2955883721

Wednesday 11:00 - 13:00 (Room Sergio Steve, 5th Floor),Link: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/5769273881Thursday 11:00 - 13:00 (Room Sergio Steve, 5th Floor), Link:https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/5769273881

Please, on Monday take your laptop fully charged!

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Lectures

RECORDING CLASSES IS FORBIDDEN

Sapienza University will legally prosecute people who areresponsible for the dissemination of recorded classes on the web.

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Suggested textbooks (both available at the library):1 A Guide to model econometrics, M. Verbeek, Wiley.2 Statistical Models, A.C. Davison, Cambridge University Press.

I will use slides only to summarize basic concepts (available on mywebpage), but

use the books!

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The exam

... the most important part of the course ... (for students!)

The exam is composed of two parts (to be taken in the same day):

Part 1: written part with multiple choice and open questionsconcerning theory and practical exercisesPart 2: practical part with the analysis of a dataset with the Rsoftware and discussion of the resulting output

The exam is the same for attending and non-attending students.

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Bonus

Instructions:

Three homeworks will be assigned during the course.

The homeworks must be submitted individually to the lecturer bythe scheduled deadlines.

If the student passes all the 3 homeworks, a 3-points bonus will beadded to the mark of the exam.

Homeworks are not mandatory, but they represent an opportunity!

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Laboratory

What will we do in lab???

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Laboratory

We will introduce the statistical software

Useful tool for statisticsWe will apply theory in RR is an important aspect of this course

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Laboratory

Laboratory basics:Download and install R (latest version 4.0.2):

http://www.r-project.org/

Download and install RStudiohttp://rstudio.org/

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Preliminaries

Some basic statistical tools you should know before starting thecourse:

Basic operations with sums and productsBasic algebraBasic probability theory

Download: Basics.pdf

Check your knowledge:Homework-0.pdf (do not

send it to me back)

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Course materials:SlidesR material (codes, data and manuals)Homeworks (please, respect the deadlines!)

will be available on my webpage.

Please, check it on Monday and download the material for lecturesand lab!

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LET’S START!