Statistics II

Academic Year 2025/2026  ·  ISCAL-IPL  ·  Paulo Fagandini

General Information
InstructorPaulo Fagandini
Emailpfagandini@iscal.ipl.pt
ECTS4
Weekly Hours3
Assessment
Continuous Assessment

Two in-person written tests. A minimum score of 7/20 is required on each test.

TestWeightDurationContent
Written Test 145%1h 20mSampling Distributions + Point Estimation
Written Test 255%1h 20mInterval Estimation, Hypothesis Testing, Linear Regression

$$\text{Final Grade} = 0.45\,(\text{Test 1}) + 0.55\,(\text{Test 2})$$

There is no make-up date for written tests. If you miss one, you must sit the Final Exam.
Final Exam

Students who do not complete continuous assessment are evaluated by a single final exam (100%), covering the entire syllabus.

Bibliography

Primary:

  • Newbold, P., Carlson, W. & Thorne, B. (2012). Statistics for Business and Economics, 8th ed. Prentice Hall.

Additional (Portuguese):

  • Custódio et al. (2023). Análise de Regressão Linear. Sílabas&Desafios.
  • Ferreira & Custódio (2023). Modelos Probabilísticos. Edições Sílabo.
  • Morgado et al. (2023). Análise de Regressão Linear — abordagem modelar introdutória. Sílabas&Desafios.
Slides

Sampling Distributions & Estimation

  1. Central Limit Theorem
  2. Sampling Distributions
  3. Point Estimation
  4. Interval Estimation I
  5. Interval Estimation II

Hypothesis Testing

  1. Introduction & p-value
  2. Tests for Mean, Variance & Mean Differences

Linear Regression

  1. Introduction & OLS
  2. SLR in R
  3. Goodness of Fit & MLR
  4. MLR in R
  5. Inference & Validation
  6. Inference & Validation in R
Problem Sets

Coming soon