• Introduction to Management
• Team-building and personal development
• Information systems
• Financial Accounting
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Marketing Principles
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate and Investment Banking
• Organizational Behaviour & Design
• Statistical Concepts for Business and Management
• Innovation Management

Statistical Concepts for Business and Management

Course coordinator: prof. Monica Pratesi

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is intended to teach students to perform statistical analysis, with emphasis on proper presentation and interpretation of statistics in managerial settings. Topics include descriptive statistics, graphical methods, estimation, testing, regression.

OBJECTIVES:

• Skills:
  - Develop analytic capabilities about statistical problems in business and management
  - Use critical thinking in statistical applications

• Knowledge:
  - Use analytical skills for conducting business analysis
  - Use statistics to solve real world problems and to develop decision making skills
  

• Attitudes:
  - Critical appraisal of statistical analysis in business and management
  - Think about how statistics can be applied in their practice and/or organization

MAIN CONTENTS:

1. Introduction, Statistics in Business and Management, Sampling Plan and data collection
2. Univariate and Bivariate Data Analysis, Regression Analysis
3. Statistical inference, estimation and testing

• Case studies