Course overview
The aim of this course is to provide students with knowledge and skills required to undertake moderate to high level data manipulation and management in preparation for statistical analysis of data typically arising in health and medical research. Content includes: Module 1 - Stata and R: The basics (importing and exporting data, recording data, formatting data, labelling variable names and data values; using dates, data display and summary presentation, and creating programs); Module 2 - Stata and R: graphs, data management and statistical quality assurance methods (including advanced graphics to produce publication-quality graphs) and Module 3 - Data management using Stata and R (using functions to generate new variables, appending, merging, transposing longitudinal data; programming skills for efficient and reproducible use of these packages, including loops and arguments).
Course learning outcomes
- Be able to undertake data manipulation and management using two major statistical software packages (Stata and R)
- Be able to appropriately display and summarise data using statistical software
- Understand how to check and clean data
- Be able to link data files through unique and non-unique identifiers
- Have fundamental programming skills for efficient use of statistical software
- Understand key principles of confidentiality and privacy in data storage, management and analysis
Availability
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 60440
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 30
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 25448
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 30
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