STAT 631Introduction to Statistical Methods in Health Informatics
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- 0.50
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- Graduate
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Statistics
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Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.
Exploratory data analysis and data visualization. Confounding, censoring, selection bias, study designs and meta-analysis. Statistical modelling for continuous and binary data. Use of a statistics package, such as SAS, to analyze case studies will be important throughout. This is open only to students registered in the Masters of Health Informatics plan.
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The course description is incorrect. R program is used now . Not SAS. The lack of support for R makes the course challenging but luckily there is much internet resource to help you out. Its just challenging to do such with full-time work or full-time school work.
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