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Linear Regression in R for Public Health

Welcome to Linear Regression in R for Public Health! Public Health has been defined as “the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society”. Knowing what causes disease and what makes it worse are clearly vital parts of this. This requires the development of statistical models that describe how patient and environmental factors affect our chances of getting ill. This course will show you how to create such models from scratch, beginning with introducing you to the concept of correlation and linear regression before walking you through importing and examining your data, and then showing you how to fit models. Using the example of respiratory disease, these models will describe how patient and other factors affect outcomes such as lung function. Linear regression is one of a family of regression models, and the other courses in this series will cover two further members. Regression models have many things in common with each other, though the mathematical details differ. This course will show you how to prepare the data, assess how well the model fits the data, and test its underlying assumptions – vital tasks with any type of regression. You will use the free and versatile software package R, used by statisticians and data scientists in academia, governments and industry worldwide.

Status: Descriptive Statistics
Status: Correlation Analysis
IntermediateCourse15 hours

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MW

5.0Reviewed Oct 3, 2019

The course was really great. The instructor explained the things in a lucid manner. Also the reading materials were great. Thank you so much for this course

SI

5.0Reviewed Feb 27, 2021

The course was an excellent utilisation of time. I am looking forward to explore further and utilise the skills I acquired.

AO

5.0Reviewed Sep 11, 2023

This is is an excellent course! Thank you for providing it to us online, and please, I look forward to have access to more advance courses on statistical analysis for public health from ICL!

JA

5.0Reviewed Oct 29, 2020

Great step by step explanation of the linear regression model-building process. Very clear. Also highlights pitfalls to avoid.

JN

4.0Reviewed Jun 7, 2020

Excellent course! I liked the guided activities however there were some do-it-yourself activities that were required before learning of the necessary code.

PG

5.0Reviewed Feb 1, 2021

This was a wonderful course, for many reasons, the best of which was I felt as if I was finally getting into a real-world data analysis situation. I recommend it highly.

RR

5.0Reviewed Dec 8, 2020

Wonderful course. Anyone with any background can attend this course. The general idea of regression you will get from here can be applied in any academic domain.

NK

5.0Reviewed Nov 28, 2021

This is the best course to get started with linear regression and R as the instructor explains step by step on each strategy

RC

4.0Reviewed Jun 19, 2020

Nice course for the beginner who is pursuing health research and its multivariate analysis. It would be better if it is provided more elaborately in video lectures.

RE

5.0Reviewed Aug 16, 2020

Excellent online course with plenty of learning to now take away and apply to other datasets to enhance this learning.

PM

5.0Reviewed Mar 18, 2023

The course is excellent for learning correlation and regression. I have been finding these statistical analysis difficult to understand, until I took this course. Great course!!!

FG

5.0Reviewed Dec 22, 2019

Great course that takes you step by step on how to create model selection in R which you can be apply into the real world.

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