Statistica economica - ENG

ECONOMIC STATISTICS

Prof. Aldo Goia

Course Code: EC0056 – E0267
Subject code: SECS-S/03
6 - 8 ECTS – 48 - 64 hours
Location: Novara


Educational aims

The course provides to the student the basic statistical tools to analyze and understand the tourism system.


Content of the course

The statistical population and the statistical units. Characters and their statistical modes. Measurement scales. Main concepts, definitions and classifications for tourism statistics. Principal sources of tourism statistics.
Frequency distributions and graphical representation. Measures of position: mean, mode, median, quantiles. Measures of dispersion: interquartile range, variance, standard deviation. Concentration: Gini index and Lorenz curve. Heterogeneity.
Introduction to bivariate statistical analysis. Joint, marginal and conditional distributions. Dependence and correlation. The covariance and the linear correlation index. Linear regression: computation of parameter and diagnostics.
Stocks and flows. Statistical ratios. Main indicators of the tourism phenomenon.
Time Series Analysis. Index numbers. The classical decomposition: identification of the trend, the seasonal component and the cycle.
Measuring Aggregate Change and Difference. Weighted Aggregates and Index Numbers.


Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of mathematics.


Course Texts

G. VACCARO. La statistica applicata al turismo. Hoepli Editore. Milano.

Teaching methods

Lectures and exercises.


Examination

A compulsory written proof and an optional oral test.