EPI 5143 Epidemiological Research Using Large Databases

3 units
Epidemiology and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
A practical approach to using administrative and other large databases for epidemiological research. Basic and advanced statistical techniques to manipulate, link, and examine datasets; large health surveys; coding systems; data warehouses; data mining; birth and death registries; use of census data; linking postal codes to geographical files; geographical information systems. Extensive use of SAS as the primary application package.

Components:

Lecture

Requirements:

Prerequisites: EPI 5240 , ( EPI 5242 or MAT 5375 ).

Previously Offered Terms:

Winter

Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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