Unit GEOINFORMATICS
- Course
- Geology
- Study-unit Code
- GP004849
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maria Cristina Burla
- Teachers
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- Maria Cristina Burla
- Hours
- 52 ore - Maria Cristina Burla
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline informatiche
- Academic discipline
- INF/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Introduction to Information Tecnology; word processors; worksheets. Application to elements of descriptive statistics: graphic representation of data. Definition of frequency distribution. Definition of the midpoints and of the spread measures of a frequency distribution. Concepts of regression and correlation. Application to elements of probability: events, conditioned events, random variables. Concepts of conditioned probability. Examples of most used distributions.
- Reference texts
- Helps on line and installante of the teacher
- Educational objectives
- The course has the goal to learn the use of word processors and worksheets, with the application to the concepts and the basic methodologies of descriptive statistics and probability.
- Prerequisites
- No precondition is required. Any experience on the use of personal computer can be useful.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures with the help of personal computers and individual exercises assiste
- Learning verification modality
- The assessment will be made through a written exam, whose aim is to verify the student's knowledge about the use of a spreadsheet and a text editor.During the course there are two exemptions concerning the two topics separately.If the student is successful in both two exemptions is exempt from the final exam.The first exemption is provided in the middle of the course and the second at the end of the course. The duration of each test will be about 1 hour. The final assessment is the average of the marks obtained in the two exemptions or in the final test.
- Extended program
- Through the use of Open Office the program includes: the use of the spreadsheet for data entry and processing, insertion of library functions, insertion of logical functions and graphs for applications of descriptive statistics concepts and calculation of probability and for calculation of formulas mathematics; use text editor to format a text, introduce titles, tables, images and hyperlinks; use of the formula tool for writing mathematical formulas.