Unit Social Statistics
- Course
- Social work
- Study-unit Code
- GP003609
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Giulio D'epifanio
- Teachers
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- Giulio D'epifanio
- Hours
- 63 ore - Giulio D'epifanio
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline politico-economiche-statistiche
- Academic discipline
- SECS-S/05
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Value of information in decision processes: comprehensiveness and power of expression. Macro and micro
level data. Source of data: official statistics, surveys, etc. Statistical reports and their application. Index numbers.
Tabular and graphical representations to summarize and interpret data (frequency distributions, scatter
diagram, histogram, etc.).. Characterization of distributions and their interpretation(symmetries, multi-modes,etc.).
Averages, percentiles,variability and concentration.Statistical dependence. The problem of "randomness" ad
causality in the social sciences, spurious relationships, paradoxes. Problems of of "self-selection" and "adverse
selection" in service evaluations. Benchmarking: standardization of the comparisons. Synthesis of simple
indicators: theproblem of the weights, the rankings. The questionnaire based scales:
construction, validation and processing.The statistical prediction: notes on the use of techniques such as the linear
regression. The statistical sampling: types of sampling, probability sampling, mean estimations, assessments of
reliability and accuracy (confidence intervals), assessment of sample sizes and costs. - Reference texts
- For attending lessons students, see
https://virtualclassroom1.wordpress.com/1-risorse/materiali-didattici/
For non attending lesson students, a suggested program is posted in
https://virtualclassroom1.wordpress.com/programma-alternativo-cons-stud-non-freq/ - Educational objectives
- - to provide a methodological framework within which to frame specific assessment projects for social services
- to introduce concepts and to use basic statistical tools
- to motivate personal interest in later advancing - Prerequisites
- The typical backgroung, in algebra and geometrics, from the high schools
- Teaching methods
- A live interactive learning method is used which is based on the "problem solving"
see
https://virtualclassroom1.wordpress.com/3-metodologia/3-metodologia-didattica/ - Other information
- Attendance is highly recommended
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of a written test with open questions, possibly supplemented by oral examination.
Modifications might be considered (eg by using some telematics) whenever necessary due to Covid constraints - Extended program
- A conceptual map is reported in
https://virtualclassroom1.wordpress.com/2-obiettivi-formativi/2-piano-didattico/mappe-concettuali/4-percorsi-1/