BÄ°S735 - BIOSTATISTICS
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIOSTATISTICS | BÄ°S735 | Any Semester/Year | 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. Gains evidence based advanced academic knowledge and skills in the field of social pediatrics when planning, intervening, and assessing well-being, quality of life, health, development, and disease in child health in an integrated and holistic approach. | X | ||||
| 2. Performs independent researches based on evidence, presents them to international and national platforms. | X | ||||
| 3. Gains the skills and attitudes to be a consultant, clinician, manager, and researcher. | X | ||||
| 4. Acts to protect the ethical values, standards and professional independency. | X | ||||
| 5. Works in a multidisciplinary approach with all stake holders including service receivers and providers. | X | ||||
| 6. Acts within the principle of life-long learning, and teaching to develop and improve quality of social pediatric services to meet the needs of the society | X | ||||
| 7. Critisizes self knowledge, develop skills in advocating, improving and representing social pediatrics. | X | ||||
| 8. Actively takes part in development, and implementation, of national and international policies to improve the rights of disadvantaged children and communities. | X | ||||
| 9. Analyses the effects of cultural, physical, economical, social, political, geographical, and demographic factors on personal activities, and educates the public to improve the health of the community. | X | ||||
| 10. Accesses to variety of information sources on current social pediatric practices, and proposes new, innovative solutions. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest