Curricular Unit:			Code:
Statistics			870EST
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Undergraduate	Commercial Management and Accounting	6 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Spring Semester		Portuguese/English	78
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
This unit aims the introduction and development of statistical analysis techniques in a scientific approach. It focuses the comprehension of their importance, utility and modeling capacity, improving the critical and analytical judgment of data and data synthesis that conducts to conclusions within given intervals of confidence.
Syllabus:
CP1. Basic Concepts. CP2. Descriptive Statistics: Frequency Distributions; Measures of central tendency and partition measures ; Measures of Dispersion. CP3. Association between two variables. CP4. Basics of Probability. CP5. Random Variables, Probability Distribution Function and Cumulative Distribution Function. CP6. Confidence Intervals. CP7. Hypothesis Testing applied to regression linear models.
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
CP1., CP2. and CP3. Objectives: Ability to calculate statistics and distinguish them from parameters; Ability to properly characterize the data set (sample or population) and make their correct interpretation; CP4. and CP5. Objective: Ability to identify and use specific models of probability distributions; CP6. Objective: Ability to use statistical inference tools: confidence intervals. CP7. Objective: ability to test hypotheses relate to linear regression model parameters.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
This unit will be subject of an expository methodology, descriptive and demonstrative within lecture and tutorial lessons, using the resolution of practical situations to provide the implementation of the syllabus. The assessment is done continuously. For this purpose: realization of 2 tests. The 1st test focuses on program contents 1, 2 and 3 (with a 50% weight) and the 2nd test is relative to other program contents (4, 5, 6 and 7), with an equal weight of 50%.
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
Given the essentially practical nature of that course all exposed concepts are applied to the resource to solve a number of exercises. This methodology allows to achieve the specific goals listed in each chapter of the that course program.
Reading:
[1] Reis, E. (2008). Estatística Descritiva. 7ª Edição. Edições Sílabo. [2] Reis, E.; Melo, P; Andrade, R e Calapez, T. (2015). Estatística Aplicada – vol. 1. 6ª Edição. Edições Sílabo. [3] Reis, E.; Melo, P; Andrade, R e Calapez, T. (2016). Estatística Aplicada – vol. 2. 5ª Edição. Edições Sílabo. [4] Fernando, Marcelo (2009). Statistics for Business and Economics. Ventus Publishing.