KAY255 STATISTICS
Academic
Year and Term:
2023 - 2024, Fall
Course
Code and Title:
KAY255 Statistics
Instructor:
Professor Dr. Doğan Nadi Leblebici
Office Hours: Appointment with e-mail: nadi@hacettepe.edu.tr
Scope of the Course: This course is designed to provide a general introduction to statistics for social sciences. Beyond providing information for statistical techniques, it is aimed at introducing the concepts of statistical thinking and helping students to think about the events in a probabilistic way. Students would learn about consistincies and inconsistencies and discover how to link certainty to statements about events and observations..
Basic Requirements: Regularly attendance and participation in the class are considered two very important aspects of learning process by the instructor. There will be two mid-term and one final exams.
Contribution of Each Class Activity to the Final Grade:
40 % Mid-Term Exam
60 % Final Exam –Attention ! 50 percent of final exam is necessary for getting a pass grade.
Required Course Reading Material:
Kaplan, M. Robert. Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Allyn and Bacon, Inc. Boston, 1987 (or new edts.)
Schedule
WEEK(1): Class procedure and introduction to statistics
WEEK(2): Descriptive Statistics: Properties of Scales - Types of Sacles - Discrete and Continous Variables - Distributions and Graphs
WEEK(3): Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Central Tendency - Measures of Variability
WEEK(4):
Descriptive Statistics: Percentile Ranks - Standardized Scores and Distributions
WEEK(5): Inferential Statistics: Introduction to Probability
WEEK(6): Inferential Statistics: Introduction to Inferential Statistics
WEEK(7): Inferential Statistics: Methods for Comparing Two Sets of Observations
WEEK(8): Inferential Statistics: Methods for Comparing Two Sets of Observations - Interpretation of Statistical Tests
WEEK(9): Inferential Statistics: The One-Way Analysis of Variance
WEEK(10): Inferential Statistics: The Two-Way Analysis of Variance
WEEK(11): Correlation and Regression
WEEK(12): Reliability and Validity
WEEK(13): Nonparametric Tests
WEEK(14): Sample Questions and Solutions