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Statistica economica - eng


Prof. Aldo Goia

Codice Insegnamento: EC0056
SSD Insegnamento: SECS-S/03
6 CFU – 48 ore
Sede: Novara





•    Lingua insegnamento  
Italian

•    Contenuti
Basic tools of economic statistics for the analysis of tourism phenomena by the analysis of raw data, aggregated data and the study of the time series.

•    Testi di riferimento
Lecture notes and exercises are available in the web page of the course at the URL: https://eco.dir.unipmn.it/

Reference book:
G. VACCARO. La statistica applicata al turismo. Hoepli Editore. Milano.


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


•    Prerequisiti
Basic knowledge of mathematics.


•    Metodi didattici
Lectures and exercises.


•    Altre informazioni
Exercises in computer Lab are scheduled.

•    Modalità di verifica dell’apprendimento
A compulsory written proof and an optional oral test.


•    Programma esteso
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.