QBS 137 Applied Epidemiological Methods II
Computer laboratory-based course designed to provide hands-on experience performing epidemiological data analyses relevant to the theoretical/conceptual material presented in Foundations of Epidemiology I and II. Students will complete laboratory exercises using epidemiological study data sets that guide them through descriptive data analyses, hypothesis testing, modeling, and meta-analysis approaches. Emphasis will be placed on interpretation of data and on learning to develop figures, tables and text for scientific communication. Analyses will be performed in the open-access programming language R.
(0.5 unit)
Instructor
Dr. Anne Hoen
Prerequisite
QBS 136 or permissions of the instructor