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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Humanities |
| Grao en Información e Documentación |
 Subjects |
| Statistics |
| Contents |
| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Statistics | Code | 710G02075 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Tema 1. Descriptive statistics of one variable. | Aims of statistics. General concepts. Data representation. Descriptive measurements. Proportion and index numbers. |
| Tema 2. . Descriptive statistics of two variables. | Descriptive statistics of two variables. Dependency relationship between qualitative variables. Dependency relationship between quantitative variables: simple linear regression. |
| Tema 3. Index numbers and time series in documentation. | Index numbers. Simple and composite indexes. Indicators in libraries and documentation. Indices used in databases of ISI (Journal Citation Report). New alternatives: H index. Introduction to descriptive analysis of time series. Series of accelerated growth and other bibliometric processes: law of cumulative advantage of Price. |
| Tema 4. Statistical research concepts of special interest in Science Information and Documentation. | Statistical models used in documentation. The distribution of words in texts: Zipf's law. Process modeling. Refinement of the model. Both-Federowicz equation, Brookes equation, generalized equation of Mandelbrot. |
| Tema 5. Elementary notions of probability. | Basic concepts. Operations with events. Laplace rule. Properties of probability. Conditional probability. Product rule, rule of total probability, Bayes rule. Applications to documentation problems. |
| Tema 6. Discrete and continuos random variables. | Random Variable Definition. Discrete random variables. Binomial distribution and Poisson distribution. Continuous random variables. Normal distribution. |
| Tema 7. Introduction to statistical inference. | Introduction. Confidence intervals. Hypothesis testing. |
| Tema 8. Sources of statistical information | Organization of official statistics on the national and international domain (UN agencies, EUROSTAT, INE, IGE, etc.). Main statistics on the socio-economic domain (demographic economic statistics, social, employment, ...). |
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