The course intends to present the great potentialities of statistical methodologies for compelling applications in business. To know the suitable statistical instruments and to know how to apply them enables to develop the capacity to summarize and generalize the data collected for business management. In detail, the main learning objectives are:
Knowledge and comprehension capacity: students must prove their ability to know and comprehend the quantitative tools for strategic choices and, specifically, the basic statistics and the models for predictions.
Application capacity: students must be able to apply the statistical instruments to the strategic choices and to the assessment of the business management. Moreover, they must be able to analyze and interpret the data correctly.
Autonomy of judgment: the course intends to stimulate the statistical reasoning for reading and interpreting data, with special reference to information on business structures and dynamics.
Learning capacity: at the end of the course, students must prove a good capacity of statistics learning in order to apply the statistical methodologies to business decisions.