STAT510 RESEARCH METHODS AND ETHICS IN STATISTICS
| Course Code: | 2460510 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 0 (0.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 10.0 |
| Department: | Statistics |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. VİLDA PURUTÇUOĞLU |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course aims to equip students with the essential skills and ethical foundations for conducting scientific research, including formulating statistical research questions, applying appropriate statistical methods, reviewing literature, and adhering to academic integrity. Students will also gain practical knowledge in thesis writing, publication ethics, and effective research presentation.
Course Content
Research design in the field of statistics following ethical standards, ethical issues in scientific research, how to write a thesis with ethics, journal types, publication types, citations, plagiarism, how to be a graduate student, how to be a researcher.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
1- To understand the aim of research
2- To understand how to start a research
3- To understand ethics when conducting research
4- To understand the process of writing a MSc. and Ph.D. thesis
5- To understand the philosophy of graduate studies
6- To understand the use of Statistics in Research
7- To promote humane and ethical awareness for research in Statistics
8- To give students critical insight into their own ethical decision-making processes
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Ability for converting theoretical, methodological, and computational statistical knowledge into analytical solutions in researches requiring statistical analyses. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Ability for specifiying problems in real life situations bearing uncertainty, forming hypotheses, modeling, application, and interpreting the results. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Ability for using current technology, computer softwares for statistical applications, computer programming for specific problems when necessary, writing computer codes for speeding up statistical calculations, organizing and cleaning databases, and preparing them for statistical analyses, and data mining. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Ability for taking part in intra/inter disciplinary team work, efficient use of time, taking responsibility as a team leader, and entrepreneurship. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Ability for taking responsibility in solitary work and producing creative solutions. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Ability for keeping up-to-date with current advancements in statistical sciences, doing research, being open-minded, and adopting critical thinking. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Ability for effective communication both in Turkish and English in specification of statistical problems, analyes, and interpretation of findings. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Ability for using the knowledge in the field of expertise for the welfare of the society. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Ability for suggesting the researchers in a comprehensible way the appropriate statistical methods for problems in fields that use statistics such as economics, finance, industrial engineering, genetics, and medicine and apply if needed. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Ability for catalyzing discussions and presentations, public speaking, making presentations, communicating topics of expertise to the audiance in a comprehensible way. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution