Probability and Statistics

Teaching Methodologies

Theoretical practical classes taught on the whiteboard. Presentation of theoretical concepts, through practical examples. Solving practical problems of the management sciences area.

Learning Results

Statistics is an essential tool for decision making and a substantiated forecast of future developments, based on knowledge of past and present situations. We begin by analyzing the techniques of descriptive statistics, and then an approach to the Theory of Probability is made that it is essential to the analysis of statistical inference.

Program

1 – Introduction to the study of statistics and applications
2 – Descriptive statistics
3 – Analysis of simple linear regression
4 – Introduction to the Theory of probability
5 – Random variables, distribution functions, moments
6 – Some theoretical distributions

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

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