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    Course Outline : MA 312 Credit Hours : 3-0 Page 1 of 4


    Dated: 07.05.2021

    Sarhad University of Science & Information Technology


    4 Years BS-Nursing
    Year-3, Semester-6

    Subject: Introduction to Biostatistics


    Faculty:
    Email Address:

    Course Description:

    This course provides the learners preamble knowledge to basic statistical principles and
    their application to qualitative and quantitative research studies in health sciences. It is
    aimed to develop understanding of rules governing use of descriptive and inferential
    statistics to enhance learners’ knowledge and skills to analyze, synthesize, infer and
    present given data.

    Course Objectives:
    By the end of this course the learners will be able to:
    1. Define various statistical terms.
    2. Explain the various statistical methods used in health sciences.
    3. Analyze the use of statistics in some selected research studies.
    4. Calculate statistical results for selected measures.

    Teaching/Learning Strategies:
    Interactive lectures, problem solving exercises, small group sessions and tutorials.

    Evaluation Criteria:

    Home assignments 20%


    quizzes 40%
    Midterm Examination 20%
    Final examination 20%
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    COURSE SCHEDULE

    TOPIC
    Unit 1
     Introduction to Biostatistics
     Identification of variable types and variable scales (nominal, ordinal,
    continuous).
    Unit 2
     Organizing and displaying data: tables; frequency
    distributions: bar graphs, histograms, frequency polygon; cumulative
    frequency.
    Unit 3
     Measures of central tendency (mean, median,
    mode) and measures of dispersion (range, variance, standard
    deviation).
    Unit 4
     The Normal distribution.
    Unit 5
     The sampling distribution and the Central Limit Theorem.

    Unit 6
     Estimation.
    Unit 7
     Hypothesis testing: null & alternative hypotheses; significance level

    Unit 8
     Type I and Type II errors and Power of the test.
    Unit 9
     T-test – one sample
    Unit 10
     T-test - two independent samples.
    Unit 11
     Paired T- test
    Unit 12
     Regression.
    Unit 13
     Correlation
    Unit 14
     Chi square and contingency tables

    References:
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    1. Gillings, D. B., & Douglas, C. W. (1985). Biostats: A primer for health care
    professionals. CAVCO: Chapel Hill.
    Kuzma, J. W. (2001). Basic statistics for the health sciences (4th ed.). California
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