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.
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Lecture
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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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