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Biostatistics and Public Health Resources

Agencies

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system; develops the knowledge, tools, and data to make informed health policy and decisions.

Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention  component of the Department of Health and Human Services with a broad mandate and specific directives from Congress to provide global health security against current and growing health threats

 

Reports

Health, United States, 2020-2021 annual report on the health status of the nation submitted by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (ProQuest) annual comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States; a snapshot of America and its people.

OASIS - Georgia OASIS is a suite of interactive tools used to access the Georgia Department of Public Health's standardized health data repository. OASIS and the Repository are designed, built and maintained by the Office of Health Indicators for Planning (OHIP).

Statistical Software

Software available to AU community

  • ArcGIS: maps, spatial analysis, and spatial patterns identification with geographic data

  • IBM SPSS: (for Education & Academic Research and for Business)  statistical analysis, predictive modeling, data mining and more

  • NVivo: text, audio, video, emails, images, spreadsheets, online surveys, web content and social media management and analysis

  • SAS 9.4: bundle of SAS analytic tools; data management, analytics, data visualization and reporting

  • SAS JMP Pro: predictive analysis including predictive modeling and cross-validation techniques data mining, report writing and graphics and business planning, forecasting and decision support

  • Tableau: query relational databases, online analytical processing cubes, cloud databases, and spreadsheets to generate graph-type data visualization

Open Source Software

  • R    for statistical computation and graphics

Tutorials

Biostatistics for Biomedical Research - a YouTube channel from Vanderbilt University for learning introductory and intermediate biostatistics for non-statisticians.

Finding and Using Statistics  a course from the National Library of Medicine on different types of health statistics, how they are collected, and where they can be found

Epidemiology Studies   tutorial from Augusta University Libraries on epidemiological studies, types, and methods for finding these studies in the journal literature (PubMed, Public Health Database)

Carniegie Mellon University Open Learning Initiative (Data Science) courses designed for independent learning; free or low cost options

MIT Open Course Ware (Mathematics/Statistics) free and open material from MIT courses; includes syllabus, instructional material, and learning activities and more

Public Heath Resources  tutorial from Augusta University Libraries demonstrating several public health resources

Subjects: Public Health