R for Health Data Science

Author:   Ewen Harrison ,  Riinu Pius
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367428198


Pages:   364
Publication Date:   17 November 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Ewen Harrison ,  Riinu Pius
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Chapman & Hall/CRC
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9780367428198


ISBN 10:   0367428199
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   17 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

I Data wrangling and visualisation 1. Why we love R 2 R basics 3 Summarising data 4 Different types of plots 5 Fine tuning plots II Data analysis 6 Working with continuous outcome variables 7 Linear regression 8 Working with categorical outcome variables 9 Logistic regression 10 Time-to-event data and survival III Workflow 11 The problem of missing data 12 Notebooks and Markdown 13 Exporting and reporting 14 Version control 15 Encryption

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This book is unique in that it is written in a step-by-step format. Every subsequent tutorial builds on what we have already learned and takes us 1 step farther. In addition, the book presents data and programs to replicate the models developed and offers new methods that are ready to use. In my opinion, the book is a must-have for the interested biostatistical audience. - Luca Bertolaccini, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, 72, 2021 This is a real gem of a book, a completely self-contained introduction to R, to data visualization and to the basics of statistical analysis and modelling, written in an easy style, with lots of graphics, good advice and useful R code. In fact, it is one of the best introductions to R that I have seen, written throughout in a simple and conversational style, and with complementary material not generally found in R textbooks, such as Markdown and interfacing project versions to GitHub. [. . .] All in all, this book is a unique and comprehensive treatment of the use of R in the context of health science, but it is useful for any application discipline. The style is supremely accessible and the use of graphics is pervasive to the explanation of concepts throughout the book. The authors [. . . ] are to be congratulated in putting together such a useful guide to R and the basics of statistics and statistical modelling. Perhaps it is because they are not primarily statisticians by training that they have produced such an easy-to-follow text, directed by practitioners with a long experience in data analysis towards other practitioners seeking a painless learning experience. Highly recommended! - Michael Greenacre, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Serie A


This book is unique in that it is written in a step-by-step format. Every subsequent tutorial builds on what we have already learned and takes us 1 step farther. In addition, the book presents data and programs to replicate the models developed and offers new methods that are ready to use. In my opinion, the book is a must-have for the interested biostatistical audience. - Luca Bertolaccini, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, 72, 2021


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Ewen is a surgeon and Riinu is a physicist. And they’re both data scientists too. They dabble with a few programming languages and are generally all over technology. They are most enthusiastic about the R statistical programming language and have a combined experience of 25 years using it. They work at the University of Edinburgh and have taught R to hundreds of healthcare professionals and researchers.

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