140.604.11
Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers
Cancelled
- Location:
- East Baltimore
- Term:
- Summer Inst. term
- Department:
- Biostatistics
- Credits:
- 2 credits
- Academic Year:
- 2022 - 2023
- Instruction Method:
- In-person
- Auditors Allowed:
- No
- Undergrads Allowed:
- No
- Grading Restriction:
- Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
- Course Instructors:
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- Carrie L Wright
- Ava M. Hoffman
- Contact:
- Ayesha Khan
- Resources:
- Prerequisite:
Previous exposure to hypothesis testing and statistical modeling
- Description:
-
For those who have little to no familiarity with the R programming language and want to learn more about how to use R to import, wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.
Provides “hands-on” training for analyzing data in the R statistical software package, a popular open-source solution for data analysis and visualization. Covers data input/output, data management and manipulation, and constructing useful and informative graphics. Geared towards individuals who have never used R or have a little familiarity.
- Learning Objectives:
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Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Read multiple data formats into R
- Recode and manipulate data
- Write custom R functions and use add-on packages
- Make exploratory and customizable plots
- Perform, interpret, and visualize basic statistical tests
- Use basic “programming” syntax
- Methods of Assessment:
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 20% Participation
- 45% Assignments
- 35% Final Project
- Instructor Consent:
Consent required for some students
- Consent Note:
Consent required for degree students.
- For consent, contact:
- Special Comments:
Consists of a 90 minute “interactive” lecture followed by a 2 hour lab, where students apply the skills taught in the lecture to real data. All in-person classes will be taught online via Zoom, on the dates and times the course is scheduled. For further information, please see the Institute website jhsph.edu/summerepi