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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Data analysis for diploma thesis

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 151-0360/01
Abbreviation ADDP
Course title Data analysis for diploma thesis
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Dana Šalounová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Design of research - sample methods, research hypothesis, sample size.
2. Data collections, creating a data file and entering data in SPSS or R, describing data sets, missing data, modyfying a data file, transforming variables.
3. Descriptive statistics, exploratory analysis, tables, graphs.
4. Principle of table and graphs creating with respect to their presentation.
5. Hypothesis testing on probability distribution.
6. Tests of independence of nominal variables.
7. Tests of independence of continuous variable, correlation, regression.
8. Comparing groups, independent samples, paired samples.
9. One-sided dependence, logistic regression.
10. Output processing, pivoting tables, editing charts and graphs, exporting of outputs to another programs.

Literature

NEWBOLD, Paul; CARLSON, William Lee a THORNE, Betty. Statistics for business and economics. 8th ed., global ed. Always learning. Harlow: Pearson Education, c2013. ISBN 978-0-273-76706-0.

MARTIN, Vance; HURN, Stan a HARRIS, David. Econometric modelling with time series: specification, estimation and testing. Themes in modern econometrics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-521-19660-4.

WOOLDRIDGE, Jeffrey M. Introductory econometrics: a modern approach. 4th ed. Mason: South-Western Cengage Learning, c2009. ISBN 978-0-324-66054-8.

Doporučená literatura

Hodeghatta, Umesh R, and Nayak, Umesha. Business Analytics Using R - A Practical Approach. Apress, 2016.

GANDRUD, Christopher. Reproducible research with R and RStudio. Second edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC the R series. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]. ISBN 978-1-4987-1537-9 .

XIE, Yihui. Dynamic documents with R and knitr. Second edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC the R series. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, [2016]. ISBN 978-1-4987-1696-3 .