Content

1) Introduction: defining qualitative and quantitative statistical variables, the usefulness of statistics, the notions of population, sample, individual, and survey.
 
2) The basics of descriptive statistics: defining the concepts of absolute and relative frequency, descriptive tables and graphs.
 
3) Statistics of position, dispersion, shape and concentration (Gini index)
 
4) Bivariate data analysis: distinguishing causality and correlation, statistical independence, marginal and conditional distributions, contingency tables, regression.
 
6) Introduction to probability theory: axiomatics, combinatorial analysis, conditional probability and independence, law of total probabilities and Bayes' theorem.
 
7) Discrete random variables, expectation and variance, parametric distributions, bivariate distributions.

Assessment method

Formative evaluation (Test):
Written test halfway through the term.
 
Formal assessment (Exam):
Written test (3h); closed book. The exam consists of two parts, one on descriptive statistics, the other on discrete probability theory.

Language of instruction

Français
Training Study programme Block Credits Mandatory
Bachelor in Economics and Management Standard 0 5
Bachelor in Business Engineering Standard 0 5
Bachelor in Economics and Management Standard 1 5
Bachelor in Business Engineering Standard 1 5