Faculty of Health Sciences · Social Work · Undergraduate
Course Objective
The aim of this course is to enable students to effectively apply their statistical knowledge and skills in their own research by examining the basic concepts of statistics, descriptive statistics and parameters, introduction to sampling theory and basic sampling methods, statistical interpretation, hypothesis testing and data analysis in social research.
Course Content
This course includes the following topics: Discussing expectations for the course, statistics for social sciences, basic concepts in statistics, frequency distribution tables and graphs, measures of central tendency and measures of variation, probability distributions, sampling distributions, parameter estimation and confidence intervals, hypothesis (significance) tests, test of goodness of fit to normal distribution, test of homogeneity of variances, hypothesis tests-parametric tests, hypothesis tests-parametric tests, hypothesis tests-nonparametric tests, hypothesis tests-nonparametric tests, correlation analysis and simple linear regression analysis I, correlation analysis and simple linear regression analysis II, general evaluation of the course.
Required Resources
Spiegel, M. R., & Stephens, L. J. (2013). Statistics. (Trans: ÇELEBİOĞLU, S.), Nobel Academic Publishing.
Newbold, P. (2013). Statistics for Business and Economics. (Trans: Şenesen Ü.). 8th Edition, Literature Review.
Recommended Resources
Turanlı, M. (2005). Basic Statistics. Der Publications.
Course Learning Outcomes
- 1. Will be able to understand the usage areas, purposes and importance of statistics in social sciences.
- 2. Will be able to define, organize and summarize statistical data obtained in social work research using tables and graphs.
- 3. Will be able to acquire the ability to distinguish appropriate statistical information and collect data for social investigation, evaluation and report preparation.
Core Area Distribution
Teaching Methods
Assessment & Evaluation
ECTS / Workload
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| Course Duration (Including Exam Week) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterm | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Practice | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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