Monday, June 22, 2020
9:00 pm – 4:15 pm
Fee $275

Fee includes all course materials, breakfast, and afternoon beverage break.

In recent years R has emerged as the statistical analysis platform of choice for scientists in many disciplines. Its main advantages are that it is entirely free, open source, fully customizable, and years ahead of commercial software packages in its features. For current public health students, R is likely the environment in which they are being taught. Nevertheless, there are few R users within the cancer surveillance community. We will use national cancer data as well as the passenger list of the Titanic to illustrate how to manipulate and analyze data using R.   

Course Objectives

Students will gain a basic understanding of how R can assist their cancer surveillance activities, including data tabulation, analysis, and presentation.

Requirements

No prior programming knowledge will be presumed. Students should bring their own laptops - this is a hands-on course. Students should have R and RStudio pre-installed on their laptops before the course begins. All code and data will be provided.

Content

The essential minimum skills needed to begin using R back at the home office. These skills will be integrated into the two worked examples - first, reading in, wrangling, and displaying some cancer surveillance data, then using Titanic passenger data to build a simple predictive model.

Course Organizer

Frank P. Boscoe