Level/category

Professional studies

Teaching language

English

Type of course

Compulsory

Cycle/level of course

First

Recommended year of study

3

Total number of ECTS

5 cr

Competency aims

The aim of the course is that Student is able to expound upon statistical material and is familiar with the basics of statistical reasoning. To familiarize student with descriptive statistics and probability counting and statistical decision making.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to use of Health Care research data of statistics in the real-world.

Course contents

Topics include sampling and experimentation, descriptive statistics, probability, binomial and normal distributions, estimation, single sample and two sample hypothesis tests for means and proportions. Additional topics will be selected from descriptive methods in regression and correlation.

- Descriptive Statistics
- Correlations
- t-test for independent samples
- t-test for dependent samples
- Frequency tables
- Crosstabulation and stub-and-banner tables
- Spss

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Scientific Theory, Research Methods and Research Ethics 1

Previous course names

Scientific Theory, Research Methods and Research Ethics 1 and 2

Additional information

75% attendance Required

Recommended or required reading

Triola, Mario. 2010. Elementary Statistics, 11/E ,

Study activities

  • Lectures - 30 hours
  • Individual- and group instruction - 50 hours
  • Project- and production work/artistic activities - 20 hours
  • Individual studies - 33 hours
  • - 0 hours

Workload

  • Total workload of the course: 133 hours
  • Of which autonomous studies: 133 hours
  • Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Mode of Delivery

Participation in tuition

Assessment methods

Exams (written-, oral-, home-)

Teacher

  • Durbo Badal Karis
  • Kettunen Jyrki

Examiner

Gustafs Christel

Group size

No limit

Assignments valid until

Until date 2013-03-15

Assessment methods

2013-03-15 - Exams

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