Programing for Rehabilitation Sciences.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisite: REMS 611 or equivalent. Enrollment is restricted to students in the rehabilitation and movement sciences program or with permission of the instructor. Develops proficiency in processing and analyses of kinematic, kinetic and electrophysiological data (e.g. EMG) typically associated with biomechanical labs. Focuses on coding in common packages to achieve the goals of reading in data from various sources, construction of multidimensional arrays, filtering, data visualization and extraction. Upon completion of this course, students will able to independently import time series data, process and extract variables of interest, and write the output variables of interest to a format suitable for statistical analyses packages (e.g., SPSS, SAS, R).