General Course Materials
Course Outline
Andrew’s Contact Details
Passing the Course
Data Checking Procedures
Guidelines for presentation of statistics
1
Week 1
1.1
Setting Up
1.1.1
Software Installation
1.1.2
Setting up course files
1.1.3
Using RStudio
1.1.4
Installing packages
1.1.5
A Note About Packages
1.2
R Instructions
1.2.1
Opening a data file created by someone else
1.2.2
Loading packages
1.2.3
Looking at the data
1.2.4
Typing a command
1.2.5
Some Useful Commands
1.2.6
Using Help
1.3
Assignments
2
Week 2
2.1
Setting Up
2.2
R Instructions
2.2.1
Looking at your data
2.2.2
Summarizing continuous variables
2.2.3
Centiles
2.2.4
One-way tables
2.2.5
Two-way tables
2.2.6
Subsetting Data
2.2.7
Graphing
2.2.8
Further Reading
2.2.9
Using R as a calculator
2.3
Assignments
3
Week 3
3.1
Setting up
3.2
R Instructions
3.2.1
Example Datasets
3.2.2
Hypothesis Testing
3.3
Assignments
4
Week 4
4.1
Setting Up
4.2
R Instructions
4.2.1
Tables
4.2.2
Getting estimates: risk difference, risk ratio, odds ratio
4.3
Assignments
5
Week 5
5.1
Setting Up
5.2
R Instructions
5.2.1
Correlation
5.2.2
Linear regression
5.2.3
Graphing the data
5.2.4
Logistic regression
5.2.5
Getting the area-under-the-curve
5.3
Assignments
6
Week 6
6.1
Setting Up
6.2
R Instructions
6.2.1
Diagnostic Tests
6.3
Assignments
7
Week 7
7.1
Setting Up
7.2
R Instructions
7.2.1
Introductory remarks on time-to-event analysis
7.2.2
Time to event data
7.3
Assignments
8
Week 8
9
Assignment Answers
9.1
Week 1
9.1.1
lesson1a
9.2
Week 2
9.2.1
lesson2a
9.2.2
lesson2b
9.2.3
lesson2c
9.2.4
lesson2d
9.2.5
lesson2e
9.3
Week 3
9.3.1
lesson3a
9.3.2
lesson3b
9.3.3
lesson3c
9.3.4
lesson3d
9.3.5
lesson3e
9.3.6
lesson3f
9.4
Week 4
9.4.1
lesson4a
9.4.2
lesson4b
9.4.3
lesson4c
9.4.4
lesson4d
9.4.5
lesson4e
9.5
Week 5
9.5.1
lesson5a
9.5.2
lesson5b
9.5.3
lesson5c
9.5.4
lesson5d
9.5.5
lesson5e
9.5.6
lesson5f
9.5.7
lesson5g
9.5.8
lesson5h
9.5.9
lesson5i
9.6
Week 6
9.6.1
lesson6a and lesson6b
9.6.2
lesson6c
9.6.3
lesson6d
9.6.4
lesson6e
9.6.5
lesson6f
9.6.6
lesson6g
9.7
Week 7
9.7.1
lesson7a
9.7.2
lesson7b
9.7.3
lesson7c
9.7.4
lesson7d
10
Exam
MSKCC Biostatistics Course
10
Exam
The exam materials can be found in
this zip file