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