PBH615

Data Management & Data Analysis

Credits

3

Course Description

The course will expose students to basic concepts that are needed to use SPSS for epidemiological research. The goal will be to familiarize students with various analytic methods and their uses to answer specific epidemiologic research questions. It will cover conduct of basic epidemiologic data and its management, and statistical analysis of data from epidemiologic investigations. Brief reviews of relevant statistical methods, their applications in epidemiologic research and interpretation of results will be covered step by step in this course. Students will be provided with several data sets from epidemiologic studies and will be asked to conduct analyses of these data.

Academic Level

Graduate

School

School of Health Sciences