Welcome to a Little Book of R for Biomedical Statistics!¶
By Avril Coghlan, Parasite Genomics Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, U.K. Email: alc@sanger.ac.uk
This is a simple introduction to biomedical statistics using the R statistics software.
There is a pdf version of this booklet available at https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/a-little-book-of-r-for-biomedical-statistics/latest/a-little-book-of-r-for-biomedical-statistics.pdf.
If you like this booklet, you may also like to check out my booklet on using R for time series analysis, http://a-little-book-of-r-for-time-series.readthedocs.org/ and my booklet on using R for multivariate analysis, http://little-book-of-r-for-multivariate-analysis.readthedocs.org/.
Contents:
- How to install R
- Using R for Biomedical Statistics
- Biomedical statistics
- Calculating Relative Risks for a Cohort Study
- Calculating Odds Ratios for a Cohort or Case-Control Study
- Testing for an Association Between Disease and Exposure, in a Cohort or Case-Control Study
- Calculating the (Mantel-Haenszel) Odds Ratio when there is a Stratifying Variable
- Testing for an Association Between Exposure and Disease in a Matched Case-Control Study
- Dose-response analysis:
- Calculating the Sample Size Required for a Randomised Control Trial
- Calculating the Power of a Randomised Control Trial
- Making a Forest Plot for a Meta-analysis of Several Different Randomised Control Trials:
- Links and Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Contact
- License
Acknowledgements¶
Thank you to Noel O’Boyle for helping in using Sphinx, http://sphinx.pocoo.org, to create this document, and github, https://github.com/, to store different versions of the document as I was writing it, and readthedocs, http://readthedocs.org/, to build and distribute this document.
For very helpful comments and suggestions for improvements, thank you very much to: Tony Burton, Richard A. Friedman, Duleep Samuel, R.Heberto Ghezzo, David Levine, Lavinia Gordon, Friedrich Leisch, and Phil Spector.
Contact¶
I will be grateful if you will send me (Avril Coghlan) corrections or suggestions for improvements to my email address alc@sanger.ac.uk
License¶
The content in this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.