Course Syllabus - LUMHS Post RN BSN Bio–Statistic

LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES (LUMHS)

Post RN BS Nursing Program

Course Syllabus

Title            :         Biostatistics

Course No.  :         717

Time            :         3 Credits

Placement   :         Year-II, Semester-I (Overall Semester – III)

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is designed to provide post RN students with the knowledge and skills to present and analyze data I community and make an inference/ decision about a given population. In addition, students will be introduced to basic concepts of Biostatistics.

OBJECTIVES:

At the completion of the course, the participants will be able to;

ü Illustrate the use of scientific reasoning.

ü Identify different kinds of data.

ü Demonstrate how to organize and present data.

ü Illustrate steps involved in calculating large samples.

ü Understand methods of statistical inference.

ü Compute a statistical test to compare the difference of two means.

TEACHING/ LEARNING STRATEGIES:

Lectures, Small group discussion, Presentation, tutorial and Self studies

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

Assignment                              10%

Internal evaluation                 10%

Final Exam                               80%

References:

Saunders, B. D. & Trapp, R. C. (1994). Basic and clinical biostatistics. (2nd. Ed.)  New Delhi: Prentice – Hall

COURSE CONTENT

BIOSTATISTICS

Unit – I

Introduction to Biostatistics

·        Definition of Biostatistics

·        Scope of biostatistics in health care

·        Logic of scientific reasoning: inductive and deductive

Unit – II

Scales of measurement

·        Nominal

·        Ordinal

·        Numerical

·        Ratio

·        Percentages, proportions, rates

Unit – III

Presenting data

·        Tables and graphs for nominal and ordinal data (frequency contingency table, bar chart)

·        Tables and graphs for numerical data

·        Stem and leaf plot

·        Frequency tables

·        Histograms, box and whisker plots and frequency

·        Polygons

Unit – IV

Summarizing Data

·        Central tendency

·        Mean medial and mode

·        Measures of spread (dispersion)

·        Normal distribution

·        Range

·        Standard Deviation

·        Percentiles

·        When to use different measures of dispersion

·        Types of measures to use with nominal data

Unit – V

Making Inference from data

·        Z- Test

·        Conflict interval

·        P value

·        t – test

·        Chi- square test