Foundations of Health Statistics and Data Exploration

1 Unit · Graduate

This course introduces considerations in the use of statistics in health research, descriptive statistics, probability concepts and distributions, statistical inference, data wrangling, exploratory techniques, visualization, modeling and foundational applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in data analysis. The course will use R and Python as the primary software tools, alongside selected AI-assisted analytical methods, with a focus on healthcare and clinical use cases and hands-on exercises.