Boerhaave Nascholing | Using R for Data Analysis
The goal of the course is to teach students how the R language, extended by tidyverse package, can be used to build a report with a simple statistical analysis of data provided in a table.
Details
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LocatieLUMC, Lecture Hall 7
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OrganisatorBoerhaave Nascholing
Omschrijving
What we teach: R is an open-source, free environment/language for statistical computing and graphics. It provides a large repository of statistical analysis methods.
The goal of the course is to teach students how the R language, extended by tidyverse package, can be used to build a report with a simple statistical analysis of data provided in a table. The course assumes no prior programming knowledge. This is not a statistics course! Elementary statistics knowledge is necessary to understand examples.
After the course you will be able to:
- understand and write (tidyverse-based) R code
- know where to look for R methods to perform statistical analyses of your own data
- generate reproducible reports from your own data in HTML, PDF or DOC formats.
The following topics will be covered:
- R expressions
- R data objects: vectors, data frames (tibbles), lists
- R Markdown for building reproducible reports
- Data manipulation: filtering, sorting, summarising of a table; joining/merging multiple tables (with tidyverse/dplyr and tidyverse/tidyr)
- Visualisation: scatter plots, histograms, boxplots (with tidyverse/ggplot2)
- R packages: installation and usage.
Duration
The duration of the course is 4 days.
Language
Course material and lectures are in English.
Target group
Master and PhD students in the bio-medical sciences.
Registration
You can register for this course via this link.