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PHC 7738 Data Science for Public Health


Credit Hours: 3

This course provides an introduction to basic machine learning and data science tools for public health and biomedical data analyses. Topics include model selection and evaluation, feature selection, generalized linear models, and traditional supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods, including decision trees, random forest, support vector machines, and neural networks.

Prerequisite(s): PHC 6757 with a minimum grade of B
Corequisite(s): PHC 6051
Co-Prerequisite(s): None

USF College of Public Health | Department of Public Health



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