23-04.42.212 Statistics 1

Instructors: Dr. Kristin Paetz

Event type: Lecture

Displayed in timetable as: Statistik 1

Hours per week: 4

Credits: 6,0

Language of instruction: German

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Registration group: Statistik

Comments/contents:
This course takes place online

All material is permanently available on www.openolat.de  (registered lecture participants have automatic access.)

The basic statistics module consists of the courses Statistics 1 (4 SWS) and Statistics 2 (2 SWS). The contents build on each other. The contents (6 SWS) are examined in an exam. The courses run one after the other: first statistics 1 over the first 2/3 of the semester with 6 hours per week (2/3 * 6 = 4), then statistics 2 over the last 1/3 of the semester with 6 hours per week (1/3 * 6 = 2). Please register for Statistics 2 (same time schedule) as well.

Content   

•     The role of statistics in the social and economic sciences
  
•     Basic concepts and classification of features
  
•     Relative and absolute (total) frequency
  
•     Measures of location and dispersion
  
•     Graphic display options
  
•     Joint and conditional frequency distribution
  
•     Correlation
  
•     Simple linear regression
  
•     The concept of probability
  
•     Random variables
  
•     Special discrete and continuous distributions (including binomial distribution and normal distribution)
  

Learning objectives:
The students

• can apply basic methods of descriptive statistics and transfer them to topics of sociology and economics.
  
• are able to use the methods.
  
• understand how probabilities are determined and when they are only approximate.
  
• are able to calculate probabilities for random variables.
  
• can recognize special distributions and are able to use them.
  

Literature:
Fahrmeir, L., Heumann, C., Künstler, R., Pigeot, I., Tutz, G.: Statistik, Springer
Wewel, M.C.: Statistik im Bachelor-Studium der BWL und VWL, Pearson Studium
Schira, J.: Statistische Methoden in der VWL und BWL, Pearson Studium

Additional examination information:
Module examination in the form of an exam! This means that there is no "individual test" for statistic 1 (as well as for statistic 2). These two subjects are examined together in ONE exam. (Exception old examination regulations)