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Biostatistics in Dentistry (DENS 510): Course Outlines

This didactic course is offered to all graduate students during the first year. It is given in a manner, which progressively combines basic with intermediate level statistical concepts, definitions and methods comly applied to research and data analysis

Course Contents

Course objectives:

The course objectives are to help the student:

1) Understand the statistical procedures needed for data analysis of the

dental literatures.

2) Understand the statistical procedures needed for performing research.

Course Outline.

Week (1); Lecture (50 minutes duration)

Topic: Definition, statistics, variables, population and sample.

Week (2); Lecture (50 minutes duration)

Topic: Mean, median and mode

Variance, standard deviation and coefficient of variance.

Week (3); Lecture (50 minutes duration)

Topic: Probability.

Week (4); Lecture (50 minutes duration)

Topic: Normal distribution.

Week (5); Lecture (50 minutes duration)

Topic: Confidence interval.

Week (6); Lecture (50 minutes duration)

Topic: Hypothesis testing.

Week (7); Lecture (50 minutes duration)

Topic: Hypothesis testing for two samples.

Week (8); Mid-term Written Examination

Topic: Mid-term Written Examination 

• Multiple choice questions

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