Crash courses

If you come from a different background than the classical economics, business administration and management studies do not worry! 

IM offers Crash Courses aimed to align the knowledge of all the enrolled students.
The courses are held (indicatively) in the first half of September before the start of regular lectures.

Crash Courses a.y. 2026-27

TUTORSHIP AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS TO REFRESH STATISTICS SKILLS

IM students can access the crash course materials at the following links:

1. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=66820519-a965-4299-ac84-b4ba00ddc3a6
2. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=eb4377f1-3d7f-41a5-a01c-b4ba00f9b009
3. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=28071f28-e234-4152-ab4f-b4bc00631557
4. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e7f8d9db-c933-404a-847e-b4bc00cf4d72
5. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=97b39ca7-c892-4c93-b802-b4bc012dd4ea
6. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8d9504e5-7c61-443a-935f-b4bd00c3c314
7. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=9a732019-f657-495c-a0c9-b4bd00c6232c
8. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=bc063ceb-da0b-4d96-88a2-b4be00877511
9. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=25b0b825-1450-40db-bb03-b4be00995ba8
10. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c91c70d1-d298-486e-bd6c-b4be00d21939
11. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=778b2d73-b641-4bf0-b950-b4bf00fb5831
12. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=58425b8d-ecf9-4e53-8073-b4bf00a14df8
13. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f4a8a150-d457-4778-915c-b4bf00fb5086
14. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=575df66a-46fc-40ea-b0c0-b4c000653bae
15. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=a7071061-d702-47c6-8e40-b4c000c95021
16. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2156c6dd-8d45-4e72-80df-b4c000daaa06
17. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=baddaf51-7546-405f-9e8b-b4c100723a04
18. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f4305cbc-bf1c-45df-9afb-b4c100f378ad
19. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7a0b699c-2bd9-4dfa-9732-b4c2009fd6b0
20. https://unibo.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f21daba7-6e8b-4ee1-822a-b4c200cc29fe

In order to access the materials students must access Panopto using their Unibo credentials.

Teaching objectives of the crash course

By the end of the pre-course, students will have acquired the fundamental statistical knowledge and skills required to approach quantitative analysis in economics. The course provides a review of the main concepts and techniques of descriptive statistics, probability, and statistical inference, with particular emphasis on their interpretation and application to economic data.

The course covers the following topics:

• Basic concepts of statistics and data analysis.
• Frequency distributions and graphical methods for describing data.
• Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency, variability, and their properties.
• Analysis of relationships between categorical and quantitative variables.
• Association in contingency tables, including distributional and mean dependence.
• Correlation
• Basic Point and interval estimation.
• Basic Hypothesis testing and interpretation of statistical evidence.

The pre-course is designed to provide students with the quantitative and statistical foundations needed to successfully approach the subsequent courses of the Master's degree in Economics.

Bibliography 

1. Cicchitelli, P. D'Urso, M. Minozzo (2021) "Statistics - Principles and Methods",  first edition. Pearson Italia, Milano-Torino.

 Teaching Methods:

Online recorded lessons will be shared with the new class of students 26/27