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HU Credits:
5
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Bio-Medical Sciences
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Ein Karem
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Shai Carmi
Coordinator Office Hours:
Coordinate by email
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Shai Carmi
Mr.
Ms.
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Course/Module description:
Descriptive statistics and basic principles of probability and statistical inference
Course/Module aims:
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
* To understand the statistical measures and analyses that appear in scientific texts in bio-medicine
* To solve simple problems in probability
* To perform estimation and hypothesis testing in simple research problems
Attendance requirements(%):
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Course/Module Content:
* Descriptive statistics: measurement, types of variables, visualizations, location and spread measures, outliers.
* Correlation between variables: linear correlation, the correlation coefficient, linear regression.
* Probability: theoretical introduction, inclusion-exclusion principle, the multiplication rule for independent events, conditional probability, Bayes' rule, survival analysis.
* Random variables: discrete random variables, expectation and variance, the binomial distribution, continuous random variables, the normal distribution, the normal approximation to the binomial distribution.
* Introduction to statistical inference: a simple random sample, the sampling distribution, the central limit theorem.
* Estimation: point estimation of the mean and the proportion, confidence intervals, unknown variance.
* Hypothesis testing: principles, testing hypotheses on the mean and the proportion of a single population, the t-test, comparing the means of two populations, errors in hypothesis testing, chi-squared test.
Required Reading:
None
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 85 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 15 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Exercises: A problem set will be given every week. Final answers will be be submitted through the course's website. To pass a problem set, its grade must be at least 60. To pass the class, it is required to pass at least 80% of the problem sets.
Quizzes: three quizzes will be given, to be submitted on a flexible time through the course's website. The weight of each quiz in the final grade is 15% (total 15%).
Prerequisites: high school-level probability.
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