HLTH 658MMachine Learning Techniques in Health

This course focuses on the techniques of machine learning (ML) commonly used to solve healthcare and public health problems. Various analytics techniques, including data wrangling, visualization, unsurprised and supervised learning, will be introduced to students. Challenges and strategies related to missing data, imbalanced data and model selections will also be discussed. The learning activities consist of lectures, labs, and a final project to demonstrate the proficiency of ML techniques to solve population health or public health problems. Students who do not have the prerequisites but have completed an equivalent course that provides programming skills may be permitted to enrol in the course at the instructor’s discretion.