Epi/Biostats Summer and Winter Institutes - Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers 140.886.13

Class Website: http://johnmuschelli.com/intro_to_r/

Day/Time: June 8-12: 8:30AM-11:50AM on Zoom

Instructors: John Muschelli (jmusche1@jhu.edu) and Andrew Jaffe (andrew.jaffe@libd.org)

TAs: Athena Chen (achen70@jhu.edu) and Brianna Barry (brianna.barry@libd.org)

Course website: http://johnmuschelli.com/intro_to_r/

Overview: This course will provide “hands-on” training for learning how to analyze data in the R statistical software package. We will cover data input/output, data management and manipulation, and how to make useful and informative graphics

Course Format: Each class will consist of 2 or 3 hour-long modules: each module features an “interactive” lecture (where students can work follow along on their laptops) and an R programming lab, where student apply the skills taught in the modules to real data.

By the end of the course, students should be comfortable:

• Reading data into R
• Recoding and manipulating data
• Using R add-on packages
• Making exploratory plots
• Performing basic statistical tests
• Understanding basic programming syntax
• Creating reproducible R documents