TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	Second Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Will be able to know and use the key data collection methods, population, sample and understand how to categorize data by type and level of measurement. 2) Will be able to construct and interpret a frequency distributions for quantitative and qualitative data. 3) Will be able to construct and interpret various type of graphs for quantitative and qualitative data . 4) Will be able to compute, interpret measures of central tendency and measures of variation and understand what these measures represent. 5) Will be able to have analytical idea. 6) Will be able to use SPSS.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	Basic descriptions and data collection; frequency distributions and graphs; measures of central tendency; measures of variation; skewness and kurtosis; fundamental concepts of probability; discrete and continuous probability distributions; sampling distributions and estimations.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week What is statistics? Definitions 2nd Week Tools and tecniques for collection data 3rd Week Sampling tecniques 4th Week Frequency distributions for quantitative data 5th Week Spss application 6th Week Frequency distributions for qualitative data 7th Week Spss application 8th Week Mid-term 9th Week Graphs 10th Week Measures of central tendency 11th Week Measures of variation spss application 12th Week Joint frequency distributions 13th Week Contingency coefficient 14th Week Evaluation 15th Week
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	D.F. Groebner, P.W. Shannon, P. C. Fry, K. D. Smith, Business Statistics, Pearson Education, Fifth edition,2000 S.Cula, F.Z. Muluk, Temel İstatistik Yöntemleri, Başkent Üniversitesi, 2006
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Questions/Answers,Lecture
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 25 Assignment 1 10 Quiz 2 10 Project 1 10 Total(%) 55 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 55 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 45 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No