This course provides a foundation for those with little or no programming experience and is designed to meet the needs of students of the UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education Public Health Certificate Program. The course will teach students the fundamental programming skills in public health to prepare data for statistical analysis, a critical step of any data analysis. Students will learn how to import/export data, subset datasets, clean data, categorize and recode data, create new variables, and perform simple statistical procedures for data description.
Course Format and Pacing
This is an online self-paced course delivered through Canvas, UC Davis CPE’s learning management system. Students will move through this independent study course at their own pace, while ensuring to complete all material within the allotted 12-week period.