Acknowledgments and resources

Acknowledgements

I am genuinely grateful to many people within the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and R programming communities, who shared their valuable work, open source software, and training resources. Special thanks to Luisa M. Mimmi (my sister!) who revised the workshop content and built this dedicated website.

Below is a curated list of great resources (most of which free and openly accessible) you can peruse on your own.

I would love to hear your feedback, questions, or suggestions about the workshop:

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Licensing and use of the workshop materials

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Selected resources for self-guided learning

Biostatistics/Epidemiology with R examples

• Applied Epi Team (2024). Applied Epi - Elevating frontline epidemiology [Course]. Training, support, tools. https://www.appliedepi.org/
• Applied Epi Team (2024). R for applied epidemiology and public health The Epidemiologist R Handbook [Course]. https://epirhandbook.com/en/
• Bobbitt, Z. (2024). Statology [Course]. Statology. https://www.statology.org/
• Çetinkaya-Rundel, M., & Hardim, J. (2023). Introduction to Modern Statistics (1st Ed) [Book]. https://openintro-ims.netlify.app/
• Childs, D. Z., Hindle, B. J., & Warren, P. H. (2022). Introductory Biostatistics with R [Book]. https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown
• Selby, D., & 2021 (2024). Analytical Epidemiology II [Course]. David Selby. https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/david.selby/analysis/2021-03-30-inference/
  
• Vu, J., & Harrington, D. (2021). Introductory Statistics for the Life and Biomedical Sciences [Book]. https://www.openintro.org/book/biostat/

R packages & tools

• POSIT (2024). POSIT resources [R]. https://posit.co/resources/.
• RStudio, & Posit (2024). Base-r-cheat-sheet.pdf [R]. https://iqss.github.io/dss-workshops/R/Rintro/base-r-cheat-sheet.pdf
• Various contributors (2024). Bioconductor - Open source software for Bioinformatics [R]. Bioconductor - Open source software for Bioinformatics. https://www.bioconductor.org/
• Wickham, H., François, R., Müller, K., & Vaughan, D. (2023). Programming with dplyr [R]. dplyr. https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/articles/programming.html#tidy-selection
• Wickham, H. (2014). Tidy Data [R]. Journal of Statistical Software, 59(10). https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v059.i10

Sources of practice datasets

• Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics (2023, September 17). Vanderbilt Biostatistics Datasets [Dataset]. https://hbiostat.org/data/
• Chicco, D., & Jurman, G. (2020). Machine learning can predict survival of patients with heart failure from serum creatinine and ejection fraction alone [Dataset]. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 20(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-1023-5
• Ahmad, T., Munir, A., Bhatti, S. H., Aftab, M., & Raza, M. A. (2017). Survival analysis of heart failure patients: A case study [Dataset]. PLOS ONE, 12(7), e0181001. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181001