Teaching Methodologies
THEORY LESSONS In the lectures the concepts, methodologies, demonstrations and application forms to realization, interpretation and analysis of the problems of statistical nature, illustrating with the completion of application examples will be presented
PRACTICAL LESSONS Practical classes will consist of resolution and interpretation exercises,using manual calculation, and the use of computational calculation on some themes of the program,with the use of SPSS
Students who obtain a minimum grade of 10 (ten) points, rounded up, are considered to have passed this course unit.
Continuous assessment
Written Work (50%)
Written Test (50%)
Exam Normal/Resit/ Specialperiod: written exam (100%)
In accordance with the Academic Regulations for the 1st Cycle of Studies of the School of Health Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, available for consultation at https://www. estesc.ipc.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Regulamento-Academico-1o-Ciclo_ESTeSC_-Homologado_signed_20230720.pdf
Learning Results
It is intended that the course of statistics is a working tool, a practical utility, enabling the analysis and interpretation of results in the context of other subjects in the course and during their professional activity, as well as reading and interpretation of articles of scientific and technological nature. It also aims to introduce some statistical methods for analysis and prediction of outcomes as well as outputs of the interpretation of results.
Program
General concepts Population and sample Sampling Descriptive Statistics
Characteristics of the normal distribution Statistical parametric and nonparametric Nonparametric tests step-by-step tests for two related samples Tests for k independent samples Test samples related to k
Measures of correlation and their tests of significance
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Pestana, M.H.; & Gageiro, J.N. (2005). Análise de dados para Ciências Sociais – A complementaridade do SPSS, 1ª ed. Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.