2025

Methods of Analysis

Name: Methods of Analysis
Code: GES13657M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Management

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

• Provide to students the domain of main econometrics and statistics tools used in the analysis of economic relationships;
• Study and present mathematical programming models applied to economic and management fields, which
allow modeling and forecasting changes on decision variables.
Skils
• Ability of abstraction and for building models;
• Domain of quantitative approaches to solve problems of economics and management;
• Ability to analyze and interpret results from modelling of problems in the fields of economics and
management;
• Domain of economic analysis tools in quantitative terms;
• Contact with the analysis of real data;
• Ability to use software and interpret results.

Contents

1. Simple regression analysis
2. Multiple regression analysis
3. Other topics of linear regression analysis
4. Free and constrained optimization
5. Linear optimization
6. Empirical modelling

Teaching Methods

The topics of the program are taught in e-learning or in-person sessions, where, despite being theoretical sessions, it is privileged the application of concepts and principles to problems of economics and management and in particular of agribusiness, as well as the use of computer resources. The Moodle platform is used in the communication between students and the teacher and where is also available online supporting documents to the course. In terms of evaluation, the students can opt for continuous evaluation where he will do 4 individual assignments whose weights are respectively 10%, 20%, 20%, 10%, 10% and a test whose weight is 30%.
The student can also opt for the exam, being its weight of 100%.