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DEPT. OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
& BIOSTATISTICS

 

EPBI 414 - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL COMPUTING

This course is designed to introduce students to the use of computers for development of statistical investigation and provide familiarity with different types of statistical applications and software.  Topics include an overview of the UNIX operating system, SAS, and SPSS software packages. Using SAS in the UNIX and Windows environment will be covered. The main focus of this course is to develop skills in data entry, import and export, data manipulation and management, presenting descriptive statistical results and basic data analysis. Familiarity with basic statistics is not required but is useful. Extra topics introducing SAS programming code for advanced statistical analyses will be provided but not included in homework and exams.


Course Outline
Text (Required)
 
UNIX
Lectures
                 
Homework
          
Links
        Introduction to UNIX Tutorial
        SSH client - This the new SSH client to access the UNIX servers. All you need to do is download the program, double-click it, and follow the step-by-step directions to complete the installation.
        WinaXe 6.2 - Instructions for downloading and installing the X - windows server.