STATISTICS FOR ECONOMICS
(objectives)
The course has two aims: to foster the ability to interpret economic systems and their tendencies through the main economic statistics produced by the official organizations and to introduce the basic methods to analyse economic data. In particular the course covers the production of economic indicators, the basic of classical time series analysis, also to correctly perform a short-term analysis, the linear regression model and its generalizations.Theoretical concepts will be illustrated using the most recent Italian economic data. The statistical analysis will be done using the software R.
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