2022 Fall

PBHLTH 290 003 - SEM 003

Health Issues Seminars

Biostatistical Computing

Xiongtao Dai

Aug 24, 2022 - Dec 09, 2022

Mo, We

08:00 am - 09:29 am

Berkeley Way West 1205

Class #:17316

Units: 3

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through School of Public Health

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 13

Enrolled: 17

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 30

Waitlist Max: 30

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

2 to 8 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 to 4 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

A discussion of current developments and issues in public health of interest to faculty and students of the department as a whole. Content varies from semester to semester depending upon current issues and interests.

Class Description

Rules and principles for R programming, software reliability, efficiency, and scalability, writing R packages, visualization, shell scripting and linux tools, version control, interfacing R with a low-level language, database, and parallel programming. Statistical topics may include simulation-based procedures.