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- Introduction.
- Frequency distributions: absolute frequencies, relative frequencies, percentages, cumulated frequencies. Classes of modalities for quantitative variables.
- Statistical plots: bar charts, pie charts, stem and leaf, histograms, time series plot.
- Position indexes: mean, median, mode. Position index properties.
- Variability indexes: variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, range. Concentration.
- Box-plot
- Data transformation. Linear transformation. Standardization.
- Contingency tables. Pearson chi-square index. Independence and dependence on average.
- Covariance and correlation.
- Simple linear regression model.
- Statistical indexes for social science.

Monti A.C. (2009). Statistica per le Scienze Giuridiche e Sociali, ESI, Napoli.

or, in alternative,

Diamond I., Jefferies J. (2001). Introduzione alla Statistica per le Scienze Sociali, McGraw-Hill, Milano.