This page provides the instructions for the course An Introduction to Algebra for Health Data Science.
The course provides an overview of the important fundamentals of algebra. It is intended to be a refresher of the basic mathematics that we use in health data science and biostatistics. The course is easy to follow and intends to remind you of the algebra that you learned at school or in those early days at College.
The course consists of 10 short lectures and does not take long to complete.
There are numerous resources pertaining to this course and the course can completed using some or all of the resources.
Below are links to the notes for each of the 10 lectures. To complete the course, participants need only read through the material. There are a few homework problems dotted throughout the notes. These must be completed and forwarded to me.
Contained in the notes you will also find optional Python code. This code is a supplement to the traditional pencil and paper approach. It is your choice to include the Python code in completing the course. Python makes it very easy to do mathematics. If you choose to examine the code, you will pick up Python very quickly. You can then use it in your future studies to do more complicated mathematics such as calculus and linear algebra. You will find that it is much easier (and later on even essential) to use Python to do your mathematics. You do not even have to install any software. As long as you have a Google account, you can start using Python do to your mathematics. Watch THIS video to set up your Google account.
There are also video lectures that you can watch. These are all combined in a playlist that you can watch HERE. There are two videos lecture for each chapter. The first shows the traditional pencil and paper approach and the second shows the Python approach. The choice is yours. Remember that the homework problems are in the notes, though (links below).
If you are in one of my residential courses, feel free to ask me for more information about completing this additional course material on algebra and on instructions on how to forward your homework solutions to me for extra credit.
Click on the links below to get started.