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About the Course

Welcome to Introduction to Statistics & Data Analysis in Public Health! This course will teach you the core building blocks of statistical analysis - types of variables, common distributions, hypothesis testing - but, more than that, it will enable you to take a data set you've never seen before, describe its keys features, get to know its strengths and quirks, run some vital basic analyses and then formulate and test hypotheses based on means and proportions. You'll then have a solid grounding to move on to more sophisticated analysis and take the other courses in the series. You'll learn the popular, flexible and completely free software R, used by statistics and machine learning practitioners everywhere. It's hands-on, so you'll first learn about how to phrase a testable hypothesis via examples of medical research as reported by the media. Then you'll work through a data set on fruit and vegetable eating habits: data that are realistically messy, because that's what public health data sets are like in reality. There will be mini-quizzes with feedback along the way to check your understanding. The course will sharpen your ability to think critically and not take things for granted: in this age of uncontrolled algorithms and fake news, these skills are more important than ever. Prerequisites Some formulae are given to aid understanding, but this is not one of those courses where you need a mathematics degree to follow it. You will need only basic numeracy (for example, we will not use calculus) and familiarity with graphical and tabular ways of presenting results. No knowledge of R or programming is assumed....

Top reviews

RC

Jun 9, 2020

Excellent introductory course on statistics and its facts. It helps to assess several testings based on different data types and interpreting values using R programming.

WB

May 8, 2023

The Journey was excellent. I have learned a lot from this course. I will suggest the course to everyone interested. I will you will have a great learning. Happy Learning...

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By Ishaku D

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Sep 5, 2022

The lectures were simplified and engaging. The questions were very much relatable to the modules.

By Overs M

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Nov 1, 2021

A very good course . Thanks to Coursera for affording me such an opportunity to take this course.

By Umaid M

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Jun 21, 2025

Good course to start with to understand statistics in relation to data analysis in public health

By Asif K

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Sep 14, 2020

This course is very good and it has enhance my knowledge how to use R and also about the coding

By Katerina K

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Jun 8, 2019

An absolutely fantastic course. Compared with my course back at Uni, this is 100 times clearer.

By Deleted A

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Oct 29, 2022

Excellent! The course was very clear and the practice exercises were very helpful. Thank you

By Md. I R

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Oct 8, 2020

This course is very important to learn basics of statistics & data analysis in public health.

By Akuzike T

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Aug 28, 2022

I gained something from this and adding some effort on this we can all transform the future

By Tommy G

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Jul 6, 2019

Excellent course if you want to start using R for public health projects! 100% recommended!

By Kim H N T

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Sep 11, 2025

It was helpful, especially the R programming part, which was something I was looking for.

By Kelly B

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Apr 15, 2020

Fantastic introduction to R, really enjoyed practising with the given dataset. Thank you!

By Ahmed M A M I

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Feb 24, 2021

i liked this course alot. the instructor was very nice and made me like statistics more.

By Don E

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Jun 9, 2020

Nice introductory course ... great videos, straight to the point just the right length.

By Adama S

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Jul 30, 2024

I really liked this course, we get basic statistical knowledge with basic R coding.

By MD E P

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Feb 11, 2021

This course is really amazing for the data analysis in R program in Public health.

By Nirajan B

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May 9, 2020

Fulfilled my expectation. Looking forward to other courses in the specialization.

By Miguel Á G W

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Jan 15, 2021

Great course: clear explanations, great videos and engaging learning experience.

By Kasun M S

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Oct 23, 2023

I was able to learn the fundamentals of basic statistics and use of r language.

By MARIELA I P M

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Oct 11, 2022

Muy enriquecedor, complementa muchos temas que en la licenciatura no entendí.

By MS.SHWETA G

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Dec 4, 2020

well defined course and well organized and explainable syllabus

Really helpful

By LIANG Y

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Aug 13, 2020

It's a great course that could build up a solid basic knowledge of statistics

By Dibbya P D

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Dec 18, 2021

very informative and on point. Thanks for providing such wonderful course.

By Nimmi M

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Jul 22, 2019

a very good class

something i was looking for a long time

thanku Mr. bottle

By Uche O

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Feb 20, 2024

The course helped me improve my ability to think like a good statistician

By Paul M

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May 18, 2023

The course meets my expectation. I found the lectures easy to understand.