Basic statistics in R - online

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Basic statistics in R - online

Target Audience:
All VIB staff
Location:

online

General context

This course combines elearning with online sessions

The course will consist of:

  • theoretical elearning course to explain the statistics behind the analyses in R (not mandatory but recommended for those with few statistical knowledge)
  • e-learning sessions and one demo session 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

Since part of the course is done via e-learning you have to take into account that you will have to spend time to this course outside of class.

Objectives

This introduction to the use of the free statistical software language R 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: bar charts, box, violin, scatter, PCA plots, heat maps and various other plots
  • 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
Event intended for

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 single cell RNASeq, the linear mixed models in R and the bulk RNASeq training....

Required skills

None

Software demonstrated

R

Rstudio

various R packages

Trainers

Program

9h30-12h30 Exercise session: data types in R

9h30-12h30 Exercise session: descriptive statistics and reading files

9h30-12h Exercise session: plots in R

13h-16h30 Online session: basic statistics

9h30-12h30 Exercise session: statistical tests