Statistics

The objectives of the course are on the one hand knowledge and understanding of the basic techniques of univariate and bivariate statistical analysis and secondly the ability to actually apply the knowledge learned in the particular context of the political and socio-econonomics sciences, using inferential statistics.

At the end of the course, the student shall know the main statistical approaches to describe a statistical variable and to measure the bivariate relationships between variables. Moreover, the student will know how to test the significance of the relationships using statistical inferential tools. The student shall also acquire the ability to read and understand simple statistical package outputs, the will be able to interpret and comment with critical approach statistical outputs results