Introduction to statistical data analysis in R
About
This workshop is intended to introduce the R/RStudio statistical programming environment and how to use it for efficient data handling, data visualisation and data analysis. It is aimed at individuals with little experience in R/Rstudio and basic statistics. For those who are interested in a general intro to R or a refresher, please have a look at the following site for a great introduction to R/RStudio Introduction to R. Equally, much of the material on statistical data analysis are based on the Statistical Modelling in R workshop. These workshops had been developed by TJ McKinley from the University of Exeter and JJ Valletta (\(\dagger\)).
Workshop structure
This workshop will loosely be structured into the following themes
- General introduction to R/RStudio
- variables and data frames
- functions and loops
- basic plotting
- Data handling and visualisation
- importing data
- plotting data with
ggplot - data wrangling
- Statistical analysis
- linear models
- mixed effect models
- generalised linear models
- survivial analysis
- latent class analysis
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The workshop will consist of a mixture between (theoretical) background and hands-on practicals. Specific tasks, designed for you to test your new skills and understanding, are highlighted as
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