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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 Sava H

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Aug 24, 2022

Good and easy intorduction to statistical thinking, R and data analysis.

By Ranjeet S M

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Apr 22, 2020

"The Coursera course content is extremely well planned and taught well"

By nicole d

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Nov 1, 2020

Great start to statistics. Well explained and step by step guidance.

By Aabha A J

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Feb 16, 2023

Thank you for providing such enriching course in an innovative way.

By otinniyi o

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Jun 6, 2024

Worth the time and effort. Instructor was super easy to understand

By Abu N

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Oct 11, 2024

Great course for those who want to learn basic Statistics using R

By Rodrigo G M

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Sep 30, 2020

very delightful to begin the process of R program in this course.

By Sara P

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Jan 14, 2024

Free, easy and helpful for professionals new to Statistics and R

By ALIA B A A

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Aug 4, 2021

Easy to follow and a good refresher since I have some background

By Fjorida L

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May 24, 2020

The instructions and explanations from Prof Alex were excellent.

By yi j

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Feb 2, 2020

Very practical and explicit course about basic statistics and R.

By Chutong D

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Apr 8, 2022

Such a good introductory course to statistics in public health!

By Enyerbert G

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May 15, 2021

This course is perfect to all that have a public health degree

By harshal D

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May 30, 2019

I learned a lot about statistical analysis through this course

By Carya M

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Dec 30, 2023

Practical course for beginners, not very in-depth but useful.

By Faye

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Feb 24, 2021

All the Tests are very interesting and worth to have a try!

By Christina M

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Dec 13, 2020

an excellent specialiaztion in statistics and Data analysis

By Peter H

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Oct 16, 2020

Basic knowledge in R and statistics are clearly explained.

By Alexander A

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May 4, 2020

excellent introduction, great value. practical instruction

By Elisa D R

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Sep 19, 2022

Great course to start with R and review basic statistics

By Idowu O O

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Oct 14, 2021

This was a well-detailed course and the tutor made it fun

By Tanvir A

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Jul 28, 2021

Enjoyable & precise. Thanks to the instructor & coursera.

By Damian B

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Sep 21, 2019

Great course, high production quality, good presentation

By Sintip P

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Oct 3, 2022

A great way to start learning medical statistics and R

By Javier S M T

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Apr 5, 2020

Very useful and interesting introduction to R and Stats