Syllabus
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture
Modelling of Regional Development
Course code: 462E404
Level of study: master
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Ľubica Bartová, CSc.
tel. 037 6414147
S pavilón 127
e-mail: Lubica.Bartova@uniag.sk
Lectures: doc. Ing. Ľubica Bartová, CSc., doc. Ing. Peter Fandel, CSc.
Lectures and tutorials: Thursday 9:00 - 11:00, 13:30 - 15:00
Course description
The course completion will enable student better understanding of theoretical and practical possibilities of modelling of regional economy, its development and activity allocation. Students will be able to accomplish analyses using adequate statistical and mathematical methods and appropriate software. The course topics: basic principles of regional analysis, analysis of spatial data, demography, application of multivariate statistical methods, models of linear programming, input-output analysis, social accounting analysis, localisation analysis.
Prerequisites
Course completion requirements
Exams
Each student completes a mid-term test weighted 50% and the end-term test with a weight of 50% to the overall assessment. In case of absence due to health or other serious reasons (proofed), test will be completed by the scheduled date in examination session. After successful completion of both tests, the students pass examination in the first date and receive a mark corresponding to the result of those tests. If the student fails a mid-term test fail (achieves less than the minimum points), he/she repeats this test in a scheduled second and third exam repetition during the examination session. Similarly, if student fails the end-term test or both tests, their repetition will be in scheduled exams during the examination session.
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Topics and schedule:
- Introduction to regional quantitative analysis. Description of regional objects, elements, processes and approaches. Development and economic growth. Determinants of regional development. Data and information sources of regional analysis. Spatial differentiation of elements, quantitative tools of analysis. Basic terminology, data types.
- Statistical methods in regional analysis. Descriptive statistics.
- Spatial statistics, spatial data, geographic presentation of spatial data, spatial autocorrelation
- Introduction to demography. Population structure, migration analysis.
- Mathematical programming and its application in regional development, operation research, mathematical modelling, mathematical programming, linear programming. Application of linear programming methods. Case studies.
- Regression and correlation analysis. Linear, non-linear functions, multiple regression.
- Mid-term test
- Time series analysis. Trends, seasonal variation.
- Econometric models and its application.
- Multivariate statistical methods, multiple regression, factor analysis, cluster analysis, dicriminant analysis. Multicriteria decision analysis. Applications.
- Regional Input - output (I-O) analysis. Social Accounting Matrix (SAM)
- Localisation, spatial concentration, specialisation. Shift-Share Analysis.
- End-term test