Intro to Statistical Computing

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to teach students statistical programming and data management skills in SAS and R to aid their careers post-graduation. To this end, they will learn how to use SAS and R to organize and structure data in order to compute epidemiologic measures, descriptive statistics, measures of association and other statistical tests through homework assignments, projects and in-class exercises. They will organize, prepare, interpret, and present statistical test results derived from SAS and R output to the class and through assignments. (Offered in Spring)