Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health
Completed by Mary Carrion
February 18, 2026
15 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Defend the critical role of statistics in modern public health research and practice
Describe a data set from scratch, including data item features and data quality issues, using descriptive statistics and graphical methods in R
Select and apply appropriate methods to formulate and examine statistical associations between variables within a data set in R
Interpret the output from your analysis and appraise the role of chance and bias
Skills you will gain
- Category: Statistical Methods
- Category: Statistical Analysis
- Category: Data Analysis
- Category: Data Literacy
- Category: Statistical Software
- Category: R (Software)
- Category: Data Analysis Software
- Category: Statistics
- Category: Statistical Hypothesis Testing
- Category: Probability Distribution
- Category: Statistical Programming
- Category: Sampling (Statistics)
