Unit ELEMENTS OF STATISTICS AND FORENSIC STATISTICS

Course
Legal services
Study-unit Code
A002868
Curriculum
Law and technologies
Teachers
  • Simone Del Sarto (Codocenza)
Hours
  • 54 ore (Codocenza) - Simone Del Sarto
CFU
9
Course Regulation
Coorte 2025
Offered
2025/26
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
PART I Elements of statistics for exploratory data analysis PART II Corruption measurement
Reference texts
G.E. MONTANARI: Elementi di Statistica descrittiva e inferenziale. Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, 2002
Misurare la corruzione oggi. Obiettivi, metodi, esperienze. A cura di Michela Gnaldi, Benedetto Ponti. Franco Angeli. https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/310
Educational objectives
To bring to the attention of the student the role and function of statistical information in modern societies, by providing useful competences for reading and analysing statistical data, made available by national and international sources, with specific reference to forensic data
Prerequisites
Mathematical knowledge, usually acquired during the first two years of high school (e.g., arithmetic operations, proportions, elements of literal equations, first degree equations, cartesian plan, equation of a line, etc.)
Teaching methods
Theoretical and practical lectures
Other information

Learning verification modality
Written (practical exercises) and oral exam (discussion on the written exam with some theoretical questions)
Extended program
PART I
- Statistics: introduction and fundamental concepts
- Frequency distributions: one-way, two-way, by classes
- Graphical representations
- Index numbers
- Summary of a distribution: mean, median, quantiles, variability indexes
- Association between variables
- Linear regression model: least squares method, linear correlation
PART II (E-LEARNING):
Methods for corruption measurement
Red flag indicators for measuring the risk of corruption

ELEMENTS OF STATISTICS AND FORENSIC STATISTICS

Code A002868
Location PERUGIA
CFU 3
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Formazione interdisciplinare
Academic discipline SECS-S/01
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)

ELEMENTS OF STATISTICS AND FORENSIC STATISTICS

Code A002868
Location PERUGIA
CFU 6
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Formazione interdisciplinare
Academic discipline SECS-S/01
Type of study-unit Opzionale (Optional)
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