Statistical methods

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
  • - Periodic evaluation - 100.0%
Final evaluation
  • - 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