Basic statistics in R online

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Basic statistics in R online

Target Audience:
All VIB staff
Location:

 This is an online course

General context

This course consists of videos, live sessions and Q&A sessions. 

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The course will consist of:

  • theoretical session to explain the statistics behind the analyses in R
  • demo sessions to show you how to do statistics in R
  • exercise sessions where your questions will be answered and where you apply this knowledge on your own data or on real-life example data
Objectives

This training gives an introduction to the use of the free statistical software language R.

This introduction is aimed at beginners. 

The training covers data handling, graphics, and basic statistical techniques (t-tests, one-way ANOVA and non-parametric equivalents).

A full overview of statistical analyses in R including regression, two-way ANOVA... will be given in follow-up trainings.

By following this training you will:

  • get an idea of what R and Rstudio is
  • use R to handle data: creating, reading, reformatting and writing data
  • use R to create graphics
  • use basic statistical techniques in R : t-tests, wilcoxon tests, one-way ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis tests, chi square tests, correlations, survival analysis...
  • write and use R scripts
Required skills

This training is recommended for people with no experience in R who are planning to follow a training that requires some R background, like the mass spectrometry training, the single cell RNASeq and the bulk RNASeq training....

Trainers

Program

10h-12h Exercise session: vectors

13h-16h30 Live session: data frames, reading and writing files, descriptive statistics

10h-12h Exercise session: data frames, reading and writing files, descriptive statistics

13h-16h30 Live session: graphs with ggplot2

10h-12h Exercise session: graphs with ggplot2

13h-16h30 Live session: advanced graphs, basic statistical tests

10h-12h Exercise session: advanced graphs, statistical tests