PHS 7020 - Methods and Mechanics of Secondary Data Analysis

Students learn to use secondary data sources to address high impact public health, epidemiological, and health services research questions. A data management and data manipulation framework focused on hypothesis generation and testing is applied to the selection, exploration, and analysis of data of various types. In this course, data management, data analyses, and reporting, are performed using the R statistical programming environment, the RStudio interactive development environment, and using various database technologies.