BSTA 526 R programming for Health Data Science

This course aims to develop programming skills in R, a powerful statistical programming language. This course assumes some prior familiarity with R and ranges from advanced beginner topics to intermediate topics. It will cover practical data science skills in R that are useful for a career in statistics, epidemiology, or data science, including loading data, data wrangling, visualization, automation, machine learning, and running statistical models. A laptop is required for class to participate in coding exercises.