2024-2025

Schedule

Mandatory courses

 Mathematics, probability and stochastic processes (10 CFU)

• Mathematics (3 CFU)
• Probability and stochastic processes (7 CFU)

Statistical inference (10 CFU)

• Foundations of statistics (5 CFU) 
• Beyond conventional statistical inference (5 CFU)

Advanced statistical models (10 CFU)

- Generalized linear models (2.5 CFU)

- Methods for panel data  (2.5 CFU)

- Time series analysis  (2.5 CFU)

- Spatial statistics  (2.5 CFU) 

PhD students must also obtain 12 credits by following elective courses listed below or, for a maximum of 10 credits, courses activated in master's degree courses. Elective courses can be taken during the second year too:

Elective courses

Offered in 2024-2025

• Causal inference and policy evaluation (2 CFU)
• Deterministic and stochastic optimization in insurance (2 CFU)
• Modern design of experiments (2 CFU)
• Advanced Topics in Social Statistics and Demography  (2 CFU)
• Statistical methodology for multivariate and functional time series in high dimensions (4 CFU)

Offered in 2025-2026

• Small area estimation (2 CFU)
• Advanced Bayesian analysis (2 CFU)
• Numerical methods in Economics (2 CFU)

Student can also take courses offered by other phd programs in Italy or by APTS https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/apts/