Seminar and Practice for Biometrics Exam

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2025-2026

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 0 hours

practices: 12 hours

seminars: 12 hours

total of: 24 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAE-VGO-T
  • 2 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Elective modul
  • both
Prerequisites:

-

Exam course:

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 12

Topic

The course is designed to provide a comprehensive and thorough grounding in the subject matter, with a focus on extending the knowledge and skills acquired in the compulsory Biometrics course. The programme is structured to offer participants the opportunity to engage in problem-solving exercises, engage in detailed theoretical discussions, and interact with their peers to address real-world problems.

Lectures

Practices

  • 1.

    Relative frequency and probability, thinking models (deterministic and stochastic models). Types of data and their representation.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 2.

    Probability calculation-Binomial and Poisson distribution.

    - Makszin Lilla
  • 3.

    Exploring data by numbers - descriptive statistics.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 4.

    Normal distribution. The distribution of the sample mean.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 5.

    Estimation. The confidence interval of the expected value.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 6.

    Hypothesis testing methods - the one sample (and the paired samples) t tests.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 7.

    Two independent samples t test. The Type one and Type two errors.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 8.

    Nonparametric tests.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 9.

    Linear regression and correlation.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 10.

    Contingency tables - the chi-squares test, Fisher's exact test.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 11.

    Summary of topics.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 12.

    Final practice. Grading, evaluation.

    - Dergez Tímea

Seminars

  • 1.

    Introduction (Biometrics and Medical Sciences). Probability and relative frequency. Variables and its representation.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 2.

    Probability calculation and discrete distributions.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 3.

    Descriptive statistics.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 4.

    Continuous probability distributions-normal distribution.

    - Makszin Lilla
  • 5.

    Statistical estimation. Confidence interval for the expected value.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 6.

    Principle of hypothesis testing metjods. One sample and paired samples t tests.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 7.

    Comparison of the confidence interval and hypothesis testing methods. Type I and type II errors.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 8.

    Independent samples t test. The power of the test.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 9.

    Non-parametric tests: Sign-, Wilcoxon-, Mann-Whitney tests.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 10.

    Linear regression and correlation.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 11.

    The evaluation of frequency data: Chi-squared test and Fisher's exact test. Special applications.

    - Dergez Tímea
  • 12.

    The principle of the ANOVA.

    - Dergez Tímea

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Moodle notices.

Notes

Moodle electronic notes
Joseph Belágyi: Medical Biometry
Sára Jeges: Biometry
L. Pótó: Biometrics. Workbook for the Practices, Pécs, 2020

Recommended literature

D.S. Moore, G.P. McCabe: Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 5th ed., W.H. Freeman 2005
D. Yates, D.S. Moore, D.S. Starnes: The Practice of Statistics (TI-83/89 Graphing Calculator Enhanced) 2/e, 2003, W.H. Freeman
W.G. Rees: Essential Statistics, Chapman and Hall, 1992

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Active participation in lessons.

Mid-term exams

There is no test.

Making up for missed classes

It is possible to join another group in the current week.

Exam topics/questions

No exam.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Borbásné Farkas Kornélia
  • Dergez Tímea
  • Kőnigné Péter Anikó
  • Makszin Lilla