140.613.01
Data Analysis Workshop I
Location
East Baltimore
Term
3rd Term
Department
Biostatistics
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2025 - 2026
Instruction Method
In-Person
Tu, Th, 1:30 - 2:20pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
Yes
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Experience in using a statistical analysis package; 140.611-612
Enrollment Restriction
This course is not restricted.
Intended for students with a broad understanding of biostatistical concepts used in public health sciences who seek to develop additional data analysis skills.
Emphasizes concepts and illustration of concepts applying a variety of analytic techniques to public health datasets in a computer laboratory using Stata statistical software. Learns basic methods of data organization/management and simple methods for data exploration, data editing, and graphical and tabular displays. Includes additional topics: comparison of means and proportions, simple linear regression and correlation.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Create, save and edit Stata datasets, log files, and DO files or R data.frames/tibbles and script/markdown files
- Use Stata .do files or R script/markdown files to create reproducible analyses
- Use Stata or R to: perform exploratory data analysis for continuous, binary, categorical and time-to-event data; perform paired and unpaired t-tests for differences in group means, compute the corresponding confidence intervals, and parse the relevant pieces of the resulting output; perform a chi-squared test and compute confidence intervals for differences in population proportions, relative risks and odds ratios; perform log rank tests and compute confidence intervals for incidence rate ratios; and perform study sample size computations.
- Use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support code generation
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 80% Lab Assignments
- 20% Final Exam
Students must have a laptop. Students who wish to use Stata must purchase a State license (details about how to do this will be given prior to the first class session). The course will meet twice a week, and each week will have one didactic, lecture-based session and one “active class” session.