Introduction to Statistical Programming for Population Health Sciences I

Catalog description

Introduction to statistical software packages (i.e., SAS Software System, R Statistical Computing Platform) to provide an introduction to the core ideas of programming including data preparation, input/output, debugging, and strategies for program design. Students will learn to write code to perform descriptive, statistical, and graphical analyses, and write maintainable code, to test for correctness and to apply basic principles of reproducibility. Programming techniques and their applications will be closely connected with the methods and examples presented in the concurrent course Population Health Sciences 701. This course assumes minimal programming knowledge.