Javascript is currently not supported, or is disabled by this browser. Please enable Javascript for full functionality.

Please tell us a little bit about yourself

Skip to main content
Ontario Tech University
   
    Dec 16, 2025  
2019-2020 Graduate Academic Calendar 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Academic Calendar [ARCHIVED CALENDAR]

Add to favourites (opens a new window)

HLSC 7210G - Data Science for Survey and Health Administrative Data


This course draws on a variety of fields in data science to provide in-depth knowledge of the latest tools for analyzing health-related survey and administrative data. This course covers data cleaning, data transformation, exploratory data analysis, modelling and visualization. Students will also learn how to address the unique issues that they will encounter when conducting their studies, including issues concerning data privacy, handling large data sets, nonresponse bias, omitted variable bias, simultaneity and selection bias. The course focuses on the theory and applied methods of data science, which will allow students to engage with the literature and effectively use data to conduct and communicate their own research. All applied work in this course will be completed in R.
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Graduate-level statistics or equivalent course (e.g., HLSC 5118G )



Add to favourites (opens a new window)