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Fall 2015
Oct 22, 2025
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PHP 2550 - Practical Data Analysis
Covers practical skills required for successful analysis of scientific data including statistical programming, data management, exploratory data analysis, simulation and model building and checking. Tools will be developed through a series of case studies based on different types of data requiring a variety of statistical methods. Modern regression techniques such as cross-validation, bootstrapping, splines and bias-variance tradeoff will be emphasized. Students should be familiar with statistical inference as well as regression analysis. The course will use the R programming language.
0.000 OR 1.000 Credit hours
0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours
0.000 Lab hours

Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lab, Primary Meeting

Public Health Department

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:     
      Graduate

Prerequisites:
Graduate level PHP 2511 Minimum Grade of S and Graduate level PHP 2510 Minimum Grade of S

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