MPH 705 - Data Mining and Machine Learning

3 Credit Hours
This course covers healthcare analytics using data mining and machine learning techniques. Statistical software, R, will be implemented for data exploration and visualization, classification, clustering and time series analysis.

Decision trees, nearest neighbor algorithm, artificial neural networks and support vector machine methods will be introduced. Case studies and real-world data will be utilized to leverage data mining and machine learning outcomes. (Prerequisites: MPH 701, MPH 704)