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الرئيسية College of Dentistry

Community Dentistry (3)

Community Dentistry (3)

الرمز اسم المقرر الساعات المعتمدة المتطلبات السابقة للمقرر
DENT 223 Community Dentistry (3) 1

Course Outline:

The course has been designed to highlight the relevance of the basic concepts of biostatistics to oral epidemiology and dental research. It will include data coding, entry and analysis using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences).The course will facilitate students in acquiring skills of drawing inferences from data and of evaluating the statistics presented in scientific papers.

Course Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, student should be able to:
1. Describe biostatistics and summary statistics highlighting their importance in oral health care.
2. List indications and assumptions for the tests of significance.
3. Recognize the concepts and practical application of probability, normal distribution, confidence interval, relative risk and odds ratio and diagnostic accuracy of an index test.
4. Interpret the values of relative risk and odds ratio, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, false positive rate, false negative rate and diagnostic accuracy.
5. Interpret the test statistics, Kappa statistics, p-value and confidence intervals for different types of data.
6. Calculate the relative risk, odds ratio specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, false positive rate, false negative rate and diagnostic accuracy.
7. Compute the summary statistics, test statistics, Kappa statistics, p-value and confidence intervals for different types of data using SPSS program.

References:

1. Biostatistics for Oral healthcare by Kim JS, Dailey RJ. 2008. Blackwell Munksgaard.
2. Bulman JS, Osborn JF. Statistics in dentistry 1989. British Dental Journal.
3. Kuzma JW: Basic statistics for the health sciences by. 5th Rev Ed Mayfield Publishing Company. 2005.