Statistics

Project "PoMOOCny e-learning" POWR.03.01.00-00-W058/18 co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund, Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development 2014-2020, Priority Axis III. Higher education for economy and development, Measure 1.2 Competences in higher education.

The Statistics course has been designed for those students of the WSB Academy who are beginning to learn this subject as well as for those who want to broaden their already existing knowledge. Participation in the course allows you to understand the idea of statistics. It is the theory and practice of statistics. It contains the content, all necessary formulas and examples of application. The exercises, which consist of sets of tasks to be solved on your own, together with answers, allow you to practice the practical application of the learned statistical methods.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

The only precondition to start the course is to have knowledge of high school mathematics, especially in the field of linear algebra.

REQUIRED LEARNING TIME

If the participant spends 3 hours a week solving the problems, he will finish one level of the course in 10 weeks (which is 20 weeks for the entire course if solving problems from both levels), and if he spends 6 hours a week, the time needed to complete the level will be twice as small.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

After completing the course the student will be:
• able to apply general knowledge about the subject of statistics and its importance in describing social and economic phenomena,
• able to apply in practice methods of descriptive statistics, dependence and regression analysis and dynamics analysis and their application in the analysis of selected social and economic problems as well as concepts related to probability calculation and their relation to real processes,
• able to apply in practice methods and techniques of descriptive and graphical presentation of results of simple statistical analyses,
• able to identify and interpret social and economic phenomena and processes together with their conditions and characterize parameters of social and economic processes,
• able to apply the idea of statistical inference and statistical tests in the description of selected social and economic phenomena,
• able to use an Excel spreadsheet to perform the research,
• able to prepare a synthetic descriptive and visual study of the results of the conducted research,
• able to use various sources of knowledge, select available information and use it to solve research problems,
• able to formulate research hypotheses and use appropriate statistical tools to solve them,
• able to present the results of the performed analyses in a synthetic way both in a descriptive and graphic manner,
• seeking additional literature and expert knowledge in case of difficulties in solving research problems on their own.

DISCUSSED ISSUES

Basic level

The basic level includes statistical methods for the description of social and economic phenomena: methods of analyzing the structure of statistical features, regression dependency analysis and dynamics analysis.

The intermediate level

The intermediate level includes issues related to statistical inference, used to describe selected social and economic processes and phenomena,e.g. based on results obtained for sample studies, statistical tests to verify the research hypotheses.

CONDITIONS FOR COMPLETING THE COURSE:

To complete the Statistics course it is required to participate in a pretest and give 50% of the correct answers in 2 final tests of basic and advanced levels.

Detailed conditions:

1. To access the basic level resources, a pretext approach is required, regardless of the result.

2. At least 50% of the correct answers in the basic level test are required to access the intermediate level content. It is possible to approach each task in this posttest three times. The result of the posttest has a 5% impact on the final grade.

3. In the intermediate level test it is also possible to approach each task from this posttest three times. The result of the intermediate level posttest has a 95 percent impact on the final score.

CONDITIONS FOR OBTAINING A CERTIFICATE

In order to obtain a certificate, it is necessary to participate in the pretest and provide 50% correct answers in 2 final tests of the basic and intermediate levels.

COURSE PERSONNEL

dr Dominik Krężołek

lecturer in the Department of Management of the WSB Academy in Dąbrowa Górnicza