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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Servizio sociale in ambiti complessi - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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Measurement of social phenomena (2016/2017)
Teaching code
4S000597
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SECS-S/05 - SOCIAL STATISTICS
Period
Sem. IIA dal Feb 27, 2017 al Apr 22, 2017.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to familiarize students with the principles and logic of scientific method, by introducing some basic concepts and tools in empirical research. Course objective is to provide a statistical vision of reality: starting with the observed variability of a phenomena, it develops a reflection on the variability and errors inherent to the process of observation and measurement, in order to understand how all the empirical knowledge is actually of sampling nature. It takes place as well as mindset and statistical tools are needed to address the study of any phenomenon.
The first part of the course deals with the analysis of dependence between two variables, and discusses the concept of causality. In the second part of the course, the principles of statistical inference are presented: sample estimation and statistical testing of hypotheses, with the aim of making understood primarily their logic and meaning.
Program
- The principles of scientific method and the validity of a research. By formulating the research problem to hypothesis testing. Observation and measurement processes. Types of variables and measurement scales. The concept of distribution.
- Transformations of variables. Standardization. Synthetic compound indexes.
- The normal distribution. Properties and applications.
- Analysis of the dependence between two variables. Frequency of double-entry tables. Conditional frequencies. Independence and association. Indices of association. Dependence on average. Correlation. The linear regression. The method of least squares. Interpretation and evaluation of the model.
- Sampling and Estimation. The sampling error. Property of the estimate: precision and accuracy. The bias problem. The confidence interval. How do I determine the sample size ?
- Statistical testing of hypotheses. Hypotheses and assumptions. The test statistic and its distribution. The statistical significance. Tests on averages and percentages.
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Capiluppi C. | Appunti di Statistica Sociale | Aracne | 2012 | 978-88-548-5894-7 | |
| Borra S., Di Ciaccio A. | Statistica, metodologie per le scienze economiche e sociali | McGraw-Hill | 2004 | 8838661626 |
Examination Methods
Written exam. (Computerized test) + Oral exam.
Reference books
- Borra S., Di Ciaccio A. (2004) Statistica: metodologie per le scienze economiche e sociali, McGraw-Hill.
- Capiluppi C. (2012) Appunti di Statistica Sociale, Aracne.
- *Spiegel M.R. (1994) Statistica, Collana Schaum's, McGraw-Hill
(* Exercises book. Out of print).
