Complements of Statistics

Code:

EM501

Acronym:

CE

Instance: 2003/2004 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://www.fe.up.pt/~jlborges/Statistics.html
Responsible unit:	Industrial Management and Engineering Section
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEM	21	Plano de Estudos EM Oficial a partir de 2000	5	3	6	-
		Plano para Bachareis EM a partir 2000	2	3	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The goal of this course is to enable the students to pursue the acquisition of an integrated vision of the practice of statistics.
The concepts are given trough examples that illustrate practical problems.
In the end, students are expected to become able to apply the methods for statistical analysis in the preparing of decisions.

Program

Introduction to inference.
Specification of confidence intervals.
The procedure for hypotheses testing.
Nonparametric tests.
One-way analysis of variance and two-way analysis of variance.
Simple linear regression, multiple linear regression and non-linear regression.

Main Bibliography

Guimarães, R.C. e J.A. Sarsfield Cabral (1997), 'Estatística - Edição Revista', McGraw-Hill.

Complementary Bibliography

Análise de Dados para Ciências Sociais, a complementaridade do SPSS. Maria Helena Pestana e João Nunes Gageiro. Edições Silabo.
Acetatos das aulas fornecidos pelo docente.

Software

SPSS and Ms. Excel

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

Do not exceed the limit for the number of classes missed and obtain an average above 6 in 20 on the two intermediate examinations.

Calculation formula of final grade

0.15 * mark on the first intermediate examination +
0.15 * mark on the second intermediate examination +
0.7 * maek on the final examintation