CEUs
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Section Number
262PHC150
Instruction Method
Online class
Statistical Programming Primer
Online
This course provides a foundation for those with little or no programming experience and is designed to meet the needs of students of the UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education Public Health Certificate Program. The course will teach students the fundamental programming skills in public health to prepare data for statistical analysis, a critical step of any data analysis. Students will learn how to import/export data, subset datasets, clean data, categorize and recode data, create new variables, and perform simple statistical procedures for data description.
Course Format and Pacing
This is an online self-paced course delivered through Canvas, UC Davis CPE’s learning management system. Students will move through this independent study course at their own pace, while ensuring to complete all material within the allotted 12-week period.
Section Notes
Access to your course in Canvas will be available 7 days before the course start date. Please note that course start and end dates, as well as live sessions (if applicable), are subject to change.
Enrollment Policies
Drop requests (withdraw with a refund) will be approved, less a $50 processing fee, if the request is received before the refund deadline. Clickhere to view complete enrollment policy information including details on withdrawals and transfers.
Refund Deadline: 10/12/2026. Refunds and/or enrollment transfers will not be approved after this date.
Students enrolling after the first day of class are expected to reach out to their instructor to make sure they receive all content and are on track with the course.
Technical Requirements
To ensure your success in this course, please review our technical requirements page atonline learning.