COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIOSTATISTICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IST 4135 BIOSTATISTICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Statistics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR CAN CENGIZ ÇELIKOĞLU

Offered to

Statistics
Statistics(Evening)

Course Objective

To make students to learn the basic concepts of biostatistics, to describe and apply methods that are used in biological data sets.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describing fundamental elements of biostatistics
2   Distinguishing types of study designs in biostatistics
3   Describing the relation in biostatistics
4   Describing the biological data set
5   Describing some special methods which are used for biological data
6   Calculating and interpreting the measures which are used for describing data

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Science of Biostatistics, Types of Biostatistical Applications, Fundemantal Elements of Biostatistics
2 Types of Biological Data, Collecting Data
3 Measures of Disease Frequency, Rates
4 Study Population, Exposure and Outcome Variables, Study Design Types in Biostatistics
5 Observational Study Design: Cohort, Case-Control, Cross Sectional
6 Measures of Association Between Risk Factors and Disease
7 Case Study I
8 Midterm exam
9 Relation of Risk Factor and Disease, Causal Inference and Causal Graphs
10 Bias and Misclassification
11 Confounding and Interaction Effects
12 Secreening Tests and ROC Curve
13 Modelling Ouantitative and Binary Outcome Variables for Medical Research
14 Case Study II

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Dawson-Saunders B. and Trapp R. G. (2004). Basic and Clinical Biostatistics, Forth Edition, Appleton&Lange.
Supplementary Book(s):
1. Kestenbaum B. (2009). Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Springer.
2. Rosner B. (2000). Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Fifth Edition, Duxbury.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture , homework and problem solving.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams and homeworks

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Student responsibilities:
Attendance to at least 70% for the lectures is an essential requirement of this course and is the responsibility of the student. It is necessary that attendance to the lecture and homework delivery must be on time. Any unethical behavior that occurs either in presentations or in exams will be dealt with as outlined in school policy. You can find the undergraduate policy at http://web.deu.edu.tr/fen

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 2 8 16
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 113

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1553445
LO.2553445
LO.3553445
LO.455445
LO.5553435
LO.65553435

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