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Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
BME3005	Biostatistics	Fall	2	2	3	6

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BURCU TUNÇ ÇAMLIBEL
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BURCU TUNÇ ÇAMLIBEL
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	- The course provides an introduction to selected important topics in biostatistical concepts and reasoning. This course represents an introduction to the field and provides a survey of data and data types. Specific topics include tools for describing central tendency and variability in data; methods for performing inference on population means and proportions via sample data; statistical hypothesis testing and its application to group comparisons; issues of power and sample size in study designs; and random sample and other study types; regression analysis, confidence intervals, correlations

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
- The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Interpret statistical results correctly, effectively, and in context.
II. Select an appropriate test for comparing two or more populations, and interpret and explain a p-value
III. Understand the concept of the power of data.
IV. Calculate and interpret confidence intervals for population means and proportions
V. Understand regression analysis and correlation of variables.

Course Content

Design of Experiments, Statistical programming: , Exploratory Data Analysis and Descriptive Statistics, Probability Theory, Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem, Estimation, Statistical Inference, Contingency tables, Nonparametric Tests, Power and sample size, ANOVA, Correlation and Regression, Logistic regression, Survival Analysis, applications on biological datasets.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to biostatistics
2)	Descriptive Statistics
3)	Probability Theory
4)	Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem
5)	ANOVA
6)	The Special Case of Two Groups: the t test
7)	Contingency tables, Chi Square Test, z-test
8)	Fisher Exact Test, Relative Risk, Odds Ratio
9)	Power and Sample size
10)	Paired t-test, Repeated Measures of Analysis of Variance, McNemar's Test
11)	Nonparametric Tests: Mann-Whitney Rank-Sum Test, Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
12)	Nonparametric Tests: Kruskal-Wallis Test, Friedman Test
13)	Confidence Intervals
14)	Correlation and Regression

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Primer of Biostatistics, Stanton A. Glantz, McGraw-Hill, 7th Edition Fundamental of Biostatistics, Bernard Rosner, Cengage Learning, 8th Edition
References:

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Quizzes	5	% 30
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	7	98
Quizzes	5	1	5
Midterms	1	3	3
Final	1	3	3
Total Workload			151

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society	4
2)	Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art	3
3)	Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area	1
4)	Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey	1
5)	Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product	2
6)	Being able to write a script ready to be shot	2
7)	Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9)	Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10)	Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11)	Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white	3
12)	Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility	5