First semester

Descriptive Statistics

Teacher(s): Laurent COSTA

Course type: STATISTICS

Correspondant: Adrien SAUMARD

Unit: UE 1-02-M-E-S: Methodology and practice of exploratory statistics

Number of ECTS: 1.5

Course code: 1ASTA05

Distribution of courses

Heures de cours : 9

Heures de TP : 21

Language of teaching: French

Evaluation methods: 1 devoir maison + 1 examen écrit de 3h00 couplé avec Méthode d'analyse factorielle

Objectives

Master the statistical tools of Descriptive Statistics (one-dimensional study of quantitative or qualitative variables, study of the relationship between two variables, whatever their nature, graphical representations, interpretation of results, notion of index) and apply these tools in SAS.

Course outline

Descriptive statistics:

Univariate analysis: nature of variables, central tendency, position and dispersion parameters, shape and concentration parameters, empirical identification of a distribution;

Relationship between 2 qualitative variables: contingency table, Chi-2 statistic and its derivatives.

Linking two quantitative variables: linear correlation coefficient, simple regression.

Link between a quantitative variable and a qualitative variable: correlation coefficient, one-factor analysis of variance.

Notion of index

Prerequisites

None