BÄ°S735 - BIOSTATISTICS
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIOSTATISTICS | BÄ°S735 | 1st Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion | |||||
| Instructor (s) | PROF. ERDEM KARABULUT, PhD - PROF. PINAR ÖZDEMİR, PhD - ASSOC. PROF. Osman DAĞ, PhD | |||||
| Course objective | Teaching basic statistics and biostatistics knowledge, to provide evaluating the studies from their own field about biostatistics. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Basic statistical definitions, descriptive statistics of data set, theoretical distributions, sampling distributions, basic research designs, basic sampling methods, hypothesis tests, measures of association, regression analysis, definition and calculation of the risk measures, confidence intervals of the risk measures, statistical methods for rates. | |||||
| References | Daniel, Wayne W. 0471525146 Biostatistics : a foundation for analysis in the health sciences John Wiley and Sons New York 1991 | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction, Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, Difference between Statistics and Biostatistics |
| Week 2 | Descriptive Statistics |
| Week 3 | Tables and graphics |
| Week 4 | Theoretical Distributions (Normal, Binomial and Poisson Distributions) |
| Week 5 | Sampling and Sampling distributions, standard error |
| Week 6 | Midterm exam |
| Week 7 | Introduction to hypothesis tests, Single Sample Tests |
| Week 8 | Two sample hypothesis tests |
| Week 9 | Hypothesis tests for more than two sample |
| Week 10 | Practice with Article Discussions |
| Week 11 | Midterm exam |
| Week 12 | Regression and correlation |
| Week 13 | Diagnostic tests measures of event-frequency |
| Week 14 | Advanced Topics in Biostatistics: (Logistic Regression and Cox Regression) |
| Week 15 | Preparation to final exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 2 | 10 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 40 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 4 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 6 | 84 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 34 | 69 | 210 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Explicates the theory, concepts, principles and methods specific to Fundamentals and Management of Nursing | |||||
| 2. Maintains a systematic approach towards nursing care and management | |||||
| 3. Produces original findings for his / working field by interacting with other disciplines | X | ||||
| 4. Evaluates current developments on nursing services based upon the needs of society and professional values, principles | |||||
| 5. Offers resolutions towards the problem that may arise in nursing education, management and practice | X | ||||
| 6. Leads innovations and changes for patient safety and quality care | |||||
| 7. Adapts information and caring technologies into nursing education, practice and management | X | ||||
| 8. Conducts an independent, ethical and scientific research on issues relevant to fundamentals and management of nursing | X | ||||
| 9. Disseminates the research results in scientific meetings and publishes | X | ||||
| 10. Performs leadership for nursing education, management and practice in accordance to the legal, scientific and ethical principles and regulations | |||||
| 11. Takes an active role in the development of organizational, national and international health care politics | |||||
| 12. Develops vision by evaluating the professionalization process of nursing with a critical perspective | |||||
| 13. Develops vision by evaluating the professionalization process of nursing with a critical perspective | |||||
| 14. Leads the development of nursing profession and empowerment of nurses | |||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest