PHPB 9240 - Principles of Health Services Research II: Methods

3 Credit Hours
Description
The objective of this course is to provide advanced public health graduate students with an introduction to theory, methods, and application of statistical and experimental design methods being used in contemporary health services research. Completion of the course will provide sufficient background for use of the methods in study design and analysis of health services research studies as subsequent specialized coursework in each of the topics covered. The course will primarily consist of a lecture covering on topic combined with a computer lab. Topics will include, but not be limited to: quasi-experimental design and propensity score models, hierarchical models, segmented (interrupted) time series models, mediation and moderation models, Markov and semi-Markov models, competing risk models, multi-part regression models, imputation methods, and cluster randomized trials.