Learning Outcomes
Understanding basic statistical concepts and methods of inferential statistics, focusing on appications in Economics and Business. Development of statistical thinking and data analysis skills. Further familiarization with SPSS' analytical tools.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Statistical Inference: Sampling, Estimation, Hypothesis Testing. Goodness of fit tests, tests for bivariate relationships. Simple linear regression.
Syllabus:
- Sampling methods and sampling distributions for the mean, variance, and proportion.
- Point and interval estimation for the mean, variance, and proportion.
- One sample tests of hypotheses for the mean, variance, and proportion.
- Univariate goodness of fit tests.
- Chi-square tests of independence in two-way contingency tables.
- Bivariate Pearson product moment and rank correlation coefficients. Hypothesis tests for bivariate correlation.
- Simple linear regression.
Keywords
Inference, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, regression.
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
- Ιωαννίδης Δ. «Στατιστικές Μέθοδοι», Εκδόσεις Ζήτη, Θεσσαλονίκη 2005
- Ζαχαροπούλου Χ. «Στατιστική – Μέθοδοι και Εφαρμογές», Τόμος Β΄, Εκδόσεις Σοφία, Θεσσαλονίκη 2010.