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 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- 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
- 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
- Extended program
- A conceptual map is reported in https://virtualclassroom1.wordpress.com/2-obiettivi-formativi/2-piano-didattico/mappe-concettuali/4-percorsi-1/