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| STAT0002-2 | Descriptive Statistics
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| Duration : | 20h Th, 10h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Philippe Lambert |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| This course consists of about ten theoretical lectures related to descriptive statistics. The graphical and numerical tools summarizing the information available in univariate data are first described. Elementary strategies enabling to quantify and to represent graphically the association between several variables are also studied. Finally, survey sampling is tackled with the main probabilist survey plans. Estimation of means and proportions are tackled in that framework. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| To understand and to be able to use the basic tools in descriptive statistics ; to study the statistical bases of survey sampling for the estimation of means and proportions in such a framework. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Six practicals will be organized to help the students to solve the different types of exercises illustrating the theoretical lectures.
The access to a practical session will be granted if the student successfully passes an online test evaluating his/her understanding of the corresponding theoretical lecture(s). The number of trials to succeed a given thematic test is not limited until a grade of a least 14/20 is attained.
For the practicals, the students will be divided into groups and will be asked to prepare exercises that they will present at two different occasions during the 1st quadrimester. Shortly after that, they will be requested to post a document containing the solutions to the exercises including the remarks made by the other students and the teaching staff during the session.
The students fulfilling the contract obligations in its entirety (i.e. having passed the 6 online tests, attended the 6 practicals, prepared and presented the assigned exercises, and posted a document with the corrected solutions) will automatically get 2 points out of 20 in the final exam grade. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The theoretical lectures and the practicals will take place during the 1st semester on a weekly basis. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| The slides used during the course will be made available. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| A written test will be organised during the exam sessions of January, May-June and August-September. Two points out of twenty will be at stake through the full participation to the practical sessions (see above for more details on the implied constraints) |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Philippe LAMBERT, Institut des sciences humaines et sociales, Bât B31, local R.54, tél: 04/366.59.90, email: p.lambert@ulg.ac.be |
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