CHEP 840

Graduate students in the health and social sciences with research interests in individual, population, and public health will benefit from this course which provides them opportunities to learn and practice using Excel as a tool for entering, managing, analyzing, and sharing health research data. In this course, students will use strategies in Excel to facilitate accurate data entry, improve data quality, and make it easier to analyze data. The emphasis is on applied learning and hands on practice. Students will gain further experience in the manipulation and handling of data and start to understand the important role that spreadsheets can perform in a data analysis environment. Students will complete a final project where they incorporate the Excel skills they have learned to analyze and interpret data from a provided data set to answer a health research question