| Course Type | Compulsory Course |
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| Course Level | Bachelor's Degree |
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| Year of Study | 3 |
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| Semester | Fifth Term (Fall) |
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| ECTS | 4 |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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| Learning Outcomes |
At the end of this course, the students;
- Gain statistical thinking skills
- Gain the ability to choose the right statistical method
- Analyzing data using statistical methods
- Learn to make and interpret to evaluate data with statistical software
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| Mode of Delivery | Face to face |
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| Prerequisites | No |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Components | None |
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| Course Description | In the biostatistics course, which is the application of statistical methods to the field of health, it is aimed to give students the ability to think statistically. Within the scope of this course, statistical analysis of data collected by any method and interpretation of results are emphasized. Along with the theoretical explanation, in-class applications will be made both manually and with a software program. |
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| Course Contents |
| WEEK |
TOPICS |
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1st Week |
Introductions and course syllabus overview; Introduction to Statistics and Biostatistics |
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2nd Week |
The field of Nutrition and Dietetics and Biostatistics; types of variables, data, and scales; descriptive statistics; measures of central tendency and dispersion; data classification; frequency distributions and descriptive measures; mean, median, mode, quartiles and percentiles, standard deviation and variance, coefficient of variation, standard error |
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3rd Week |
Construction of frequency tables; data presentation; tabular and graphical methods |
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4th Week |
Construction of cross-tabulations and graphs; simple two-column tables, extended tables, cross-tabulations, contingency tables; bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, histograms, scatter plots |
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5th Week |
Probability and probability distributions; Binomial, Poisson, Normal, and Standard Normal distributions; sampling distributions |
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6th Week |
Republic Day |
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7th Week |
Sampling distributions; parameter estimation and confidence intervals; sampling methods |
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8th Week |
Midterm Exam |
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9th Week |
Introduction to hypothesis (significance) testing; data measurement levels, hypotheses, significance level, sample size, dependent vs. independent groups, types of tests and their characteristics, statistical decision-making, selecting the appropriate test; Introduction to SPSS 1 Variables, data entry, performing calculations |
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10th Week |
Introduction to SPSS (Part 2), continuing calculations; descriptive statistics, tables, and graphs |
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11th Week |
Test of normality, One-Sample Hypothesis Test (t-test and Z-test), SPSS application |
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12th Week |
Test of significance for the difference between means in independent groups (samples) (test of significance for the difference between two means), parametric and non-parametric counterparts, SPSS application |
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13th Week |
Hypothesis testing for qualitative (categorical) variables (Chi-square test), hypothesis tests for dependent groups (test of significance for the difference between paired samples), parametric and non-parametric counterparts, SPSS application |
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14th Week |
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), correlation, SPSS application |
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| Recommended or Required Reading | 1. Prof. Dr. Reha Alpar, ?Spor, Sağlık ve Eğitim Bilimlerinden Örneklerle UYGULAMALI İSTATİSTİK ve GEÇERLİK-GÜVENİRLİK? Detay Yayıncılık, Ankara, Ocak 2016.
2. Prof. Dr. Kazım Özdamar, ?Paket Programlar ile İstatistiksel Veri Analizi I?, Nisan Kitabevleri Yayınları yenilenmiş 9.baskı, 2015.
3. Prof. Dr. Kazım Özdamar, ?Paket Programlar ile İstatistiksel Veri Analizi II?, Nisan Kitabevleri Yayınları 10.baskı, Ankara, 2021.
4. Prof. Dr. Aziz Akgül, , ?Tıbbi Araştırmalarda İstatistiksel Analiz Teknikleri-SPSS Uygulamaları-? Alfa Yayınları, 4.Baskı, Aralık 2021.
5. Jerrold h. Zar. ?Biostatistical Analysis? forth edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc.1999.
6. Dersin öğretim üyesi Prof. Dr. Mehtap Akçil Ok tarafından oys2.baskent.edu.tr (moodle) öğrenme ve yönetim sisteminden verilen güncel ders notları ve diğer elektronik kitap vb. yardımcı kaynaklar. |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
- Lecture
- Discussion
- Questions/Answers
- Problem Solving
- Practice
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria |
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Quantity |
Percentage (%) |
| Mid-term |
1 |
35 |
| Assignment |
1 |
20 |
| Total(%) |
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55 |
| Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) |
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55 |
| Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) |
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45 |
| Total(%) |
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100 |
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| ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload |
| Activities |
Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Midterm exam |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Preparation for Quiz |
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| Individual or group work |
8 |
3 |
24 |
| Preparation for Final exam |
1 |
25 |
25 |
| Course hours |
14 |
3 |
42 |
| Preparation for Midterm exam |
1 |
14 |
14 |
| Laboratory (including preparation) |
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| Final exam |
1 |
2 |
2 |
| Homework |
1 |
5 |
5 |
| Total Work Load | 113 |
| Total Work Load / 30 (h) | 3.76 |
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 4 |
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| Language of Instruction | Turkish |
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| Work Placement(s) | No |
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