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May 21, 2024
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CHS 703 - Applied Health Data Analysis (3 units)
Methods and software packages in Biostatistics typically used in epidemiological research and practice including data management and multiple regressions.
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. evaluate preferred methodological alternatives to commonly used statistical methods when assumptions are not met.
2. evaluate the different measurement scales and the implications for selection of statistical methods to be used based on these distinctions.
3. construct descriptive techniques commonly used to summarize public health data.
4. Students will be able to decide common statistical methods for inference.
5. compare results of statistical analyses found in public health studies.
6. create written and oral presentations based on statistical analyses for both public health professionals and educated lay audiences.
7. design data analysis using a statistical software package (SAS).
8. analyze basic epidemiology measures.
9. verify causal inference and hypothesis testing.
10. judge random error and systematic error (bias).
11. verify whether confounding and/or effect modification is present.
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