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Students will learn how to use administrative claims, electronic health records, and other secondary data sources to conduct public health research. The course will address privacy issues, data cleaning, creation of new variables, missing data, and documentation of data analysis decisions. Students will have the opportunity to apply course concepts to real data sets. This course is intended for undergraduates in their junior or senior year who are interested in conducting public health research with large, secondary data sets. AS.280.345 (Public Health Biostatistics) OR other introductory statistics class required. Some familiarity with R is recommended, but not required. This is a Gordis Teaching Fellowship course.