Base Knowledge
NA
Teaching Methodologies
The following teaching methodologies are used in this curricular unit:
1) Verbal methods (say), making use of the following educational resources: Exposition, Explanation, Dialogue andquestioning;
2) Intuitive Methodologies (show), making use of the following educational resources: Demo, Audiovisual, writtentexts;
3) Active Methodologies (to do), making use of pedagogical resources: problem solving; technology.
Learning Results
The goals of this course are:
a) Deepen the knowledge of Descriptive Statistics developed during Secondary Education;
b) Learn techniques of Inferential Statistics and its assumptions in order to use them wisely and critically,acknowledge their limitations, and interpret correctly the results;
c) Use software to describe data and to apply the techniques of statistical decision and correctly interpret theresults.
Program
1. Descriptive statistics
2. Statistical Inference
3. Introduction to Regression
4. Introduction to multivariate statistics: dimensionality reduction techniques and classification and groupingtechniques
Grading Methods
- - Periodic evaluation - 100.0%
- - Final evaluation - 100.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Hair, J.; Black, W.; Babin, B.; Anderson, R.; Tatham, R.; Multivariate Data Analysis, 7th Ed., Pearson , 2010
Jonhson, R. A.; Wichern, D. W.; Applied Multivariate Statistical Methods, 6th Ed., Pearson, 2014
Marôco, J.; Análise Estatística com o SPSS Statistics, 6ª Ed., ReportNumber, 2014
Pestana, M. H.; Gageiro, J. N.; Análise de Dados para Ciências Sociais – A complementaridades do SPSS, 5ª ed, Edições Sílabo, Lisboa 2008
Pestana, M. H.; Gageiro, J. N.; Descobrindo a Regressão – com a complementaridade do SPSS, 1ª ed, Edições
Sílabo, Lisboa 2005