Instructors: Silvia Stefan, MHHS and Nicholas Cascarelli, MHHS

Silvia Stefan w/ President Tressel

Nicholas Cascarelli

Welcome and Course Outline

Welcome to Basic Statistical concepts. This is an introductory course intended for junior level college students that contains three lessons. Lesson 1 is a lesson on Measures of Central Tendency. Lesson 2 is a lesson on Measures of Dispersion. Lesson 3 is a lesson on p values, statisitcal and clinical significance. Each lesson is formatted the same way. It will start with introductory material and definitions and explanations of the concepts covered. Then you will get links to videos and other websites to further your understanding of the material. You then will be asked a discussion question that you will need to respond to on a correponding Google Doc. Lastly, you will be asked to copy the assignment section and paste it into a Word document. Then you will answer the questions in the assignment, save the Word file and send it to one of the instructors via email.

Prerequisites for Course

• Characteristics:  Health care professionals with a clinical background.
  
• Required knowledge base: Students should have acquired at least a junior level of college, have completed Math 2623, mathematics models emphasizing basic ideas in mathematics and statistics, stressing concept formation rather than manipulative skills, or Math 2625, an introduction to statistics and its applications. Emphasis on applications, critical reasoning, and data analysis using statistical software.  
  

Distance Education Guidelines

Please refer to the Distance Guidelines at Youngstown State University for information on and support for students engaging in online learning. This site also contains information on the provision of a safe, healthy and legal online learning environment.

Lesson Modules

Lesson 1 - Measures of Central Tendency

Lesson 2 - Measures of Dispersion

Lesson 3 - p-values and Significance

Free Adaptive/Assistive Technologies Links

Below are some links that you can use if you have a disability or impairment that requires you need adaptive or assistive technology. These sites describe various adaptive and assistive technologies that are free.

http://wac.osu.edu/conferences/emrc08/free_at.html

http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect/feature-details/closed-captioning.html

Other Technology Links

Below are some links to technology that will be useful in completing the course.

• Adobe Acrobat Reader -- This plug-in is required to view many documents and course materials. It is available free of charge at: http://get.adobe.com/reader/
• RealPlayer -- This plug-in allows playing of Real video files. Available free at: http://www.real.com. Just follow the links for downloading the free RealPlayer.
• QuickTime Player --This plug-in allows playing of QuickTime movie files and some QuickTime VR files. It is available free of charge at: http://www.quicktime.com.
• Macromedia Flash Player -- This plug-in allows playing of Flash movie files. It is available free of charge at: http://www.macromedia.com.
• Microsoft Office Converters and Viewers --These converters and viewers allow you to view Microsoft Office files if you have different versions of office software installed, or do not have Microsoft Office installed on your computer. Converters and viewers are available free of charge at: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010449811033.aspx

Photos couretsy of Silvia Stefan and Nick Cascarelli

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