Population Health Research Methods

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This course provides an overview of the research process including conducting a literature review, formulations, and motivation of a research problem, measurement and management of variables, selection of a sample, description, and graphing of variables, analysis, and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data, use of statistical software, and writing a research report. Topics include how to identify a research question, reasons, and procedures for reviewing the literature, descriptive statistics, graphing data, inferential statistics, qualitative study design and data analysis, different types of data, commonly used measures in public health-related research, and data mining techniques.