| Course: | Fundamentals of Statistics | ||||||||||||||||
| Year: | 1 |
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| Semester: | 1º Semestre |
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| Curricular Unit: | Matemática Aplicada e Estatística |
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| ECTS: | 3.0 |
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| Regent: | Júlia Maria Vitorino Teles |
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| Objectives: | To provide students with fundamental concepts of statistics, which enables the handling of data related to scientific research with experimental basis, and exercise real data analysis capabilities, promoting the domain of a statistical software (in the case, the SPSS statistical software). | ||||||||||||||||
| Contents: | 1. Exploratory data analysis 2. Parametric and nonparametric inference: one sample, two samples and more than two samples 3. Chi-square test for homogeneity and Chi-square test of independence 4. Linear regression models |
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| Evaluation: | Assessment by final exam (normal or recourse periods). The approval in the discipline is obtained with a final score greater than or equal to 10. Upon teachers approval, students with a score greater than or equal to 9.0 may have an oral exam. The statistical software SPSS is used in the assessment. | ||||||||||||||||
| Bibliography: | • Field, A (2010). Discovering Statistics Using SPSS. SAGE Publications Ltd, London. • Marôco, J (2010). Análise Estatística com o PASW Statistics (ex-SPSS). ReportNumber, Lisboa. • Montgomery, DC; Peck, EA; Vining, GG (2007). Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis. John Wiley and Sons, New York. • Murteira, B (1993). Análise Esploratória de Dados: Estatística Descritiva. McGraw-Hill, Lisboa. • Pestana, DD; Velosa, SF (2010). Introdução à Probabilidade e à Estatística. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa. • Sheskin, DJ (2007). Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures. Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Florida. • Sprent, P; Smeeton, NC (2007). Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods. Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL. • Teles, J (2017). Manual de apoio à unidade curricular de Noções de Estatística, do 16º Mestrado em Treino de Alto Rendimento (manual não editado). • Zar, JH (2010). Biostatistical Analysis. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. |
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