Clinical Data Analytics

3 credits · School of Nursing

This course provides the foundation needed to understand complex clinical data structures and the requirements for retrieving and analyzing data to address healthcare questions. Students will gain an understanding of the methods and analytic tools required to select and prepare data for analysis and querying data through data and text mining, data analytics techniques and machine learning. Students will also learn advanced techniques for data analytical evaluation and presentation of clinical data, predictive modeling and visual analytics. The course places much weight on the use of case studies with respect to data analysis and findings. Pre-requisite: completion of a course in descriptive and inferential statistics