Applied Statistics and Data Analysis for Health Physics

This is an applied 40-hour course run over five days (8AM to 5PM) that is tailored to the data analysis needs of health physicists. The main goal of the course is to introduce the health physicist to software tools and statistical methods that are appropriate for the analysis of a wide range of problems. Key concepts and techniques will be reinforced by having the students analyze real health-physics related datasets. This course will be taught at a level that assumes students are familiar (but not necessarily proficient) with mathematics through calculus (e.g., you need to know what an integral is but you don’t have to be able to integrate). The open source statistical software R (http://cran.r-project.org/) in combination with the integrated development environment RStudio (http://rstudio.org/ ) will be used to perform calculations. When they arrive for the course, students are expected to have a functional installation of R & RStudio on their laptop computers, and familiarity with some programming language will be helpful.

Instructors for the course are Thomas LaBone, a health physicist, and Dr. Nancy Chalmers, a statistician. This course has been approved for 40 continuing education credits by the ABHP.

DATES: May 16-20, 2016
FEE: $1,795.00 on or before April 15; $1,995.00 after April 15 – Register Now!
PLACE: Aiken, SC