Biostatistical Computing for Public Health

Catalog description

Provides experience in intermediate and advanced usage of a biostatistical software package for public health data analyses. PHS 529 Biostatistical Computing for Public Health (1) The goal of this course is to provide students with the SAS skills to perform intermediate and advanced biostatistical analyses of public health data and associated data management tasks using the SAS system, so that in other public health and biostatistics courses they may focus on theoretical aspects rather than computing and programming issues. Upon completion, students will be able to use standard statistical software and to apply the fundamental concepts of information technology.