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Mehmet Tevfik DORAK, MD, PhD

This is the website of a one-day course first ran in Istanbul in 2019 on basic statistics and graphics with R. The course was designed to address the needs of absolute beginners to use R (R Users) rather than for those who want to write their own code (developers/programmers). Anyone who has an interest in learning how to use R and/or statistics should benefit. The course teaches R and statistics at the same time without assuming any prior knowledge. It can be used like a self-paced course by any learner. All presentations and R scripts are provided below. In February 2021, these sessions were delivered online at Kingston University London (KUL) and video recordings are available to those who have access to KUL network. During the course, all participants started running R codes within the first 10 minutes without any difficulty. The aim is to bring the participants to a level to enable them to use any cookbook to do most of the basic statistical tests and produce graphics. The course showed that even with a few hours of training, everybody can start using R even without any prior knowledge of writing R codes.

(Please download the files first (with right click and Save Link As…) and then open from your computer)

Before you start, please go through the following Data Management and Basic Statistics notes (PPTX for saving; right click and Save Link As…)

0.Data Preparation 1.Statistical Concepts and Common Errors 2.Descriptive Statistics 3.Statistics for Count Data 4.Statistics for Continuous Data 5.Presentation of Results

PDF version of all of the above (for viewing)

Meta-Analysis

Survival Analysis and Statistical Power

Basic information about R and links for R users

R Notes (PDF) R Links (PDF)

Session 1

(R basics and syntax)

PPT PPTX PDF Script

Video recordings (KUL only): Part 1 & Part 2

Session 2

(Descriptive statistics and related graphics)