R is a powerful open source free statistical tool/software used now extensively in all fields due to its ease of applications/functions and powerful graphic tools. Here we describe different resources of R for medical professions.
Start with this book. Written in a simple and concise manner and helpful for people with no prior programming knowledge.
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Introduction to visualising spatial data in R
A 419 pages book covering all important aspects of R.
Using R for Biomedical Statistics
A booklet describing the common statistical tests used in biomedical sciences with examples. Statistical tests include calculating relative risk, odds ratio, testing association between disease and exposure, Mantel-Haenszel test, dose response analysis, calculation of sample size for RCT, calculation of power of RCT and Forest Plot for a Meta-analysis of Several Different Randomised Control Trials. PDF version also explains on how to install R on your desktop. Functions of R used in this book are calcRelativeRisk(),calcOddsRatio(),chisq.test,fisher.test,cmh.test(),calcTaronesTest(),calcMHRatio(),mcnemar.test(),
doseSpecificOddsRatios(),doseOddsDiseaseRegression(),calcSampleSizeForRCT(),calcPowerForRC(),makeForestPlotForRCTs().
A short introduction to R for Epidemiology
A good and basic read for those who are unfamiliar with R functions.
Analysis of epidemiological data using R and Epicalc
A very good and comprehensive book starting with basic concepts of R and then gradually moving to epidemiological data analysis tools. Written by Epidemiology Unit, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. For medical professionals, R for dummies and this book should be enough to make them specialized in R for their research purposes. Book is in PDF format with 328 pages.
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Epicalc_Book.pdf
An introduction to data cleaning in R
A detailed and open source book by Tom ́as J. Aragon of University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health and the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
http://www.medepi.net/docs/EpidemiologyUsingR.pdf
Statistical Practice in Epidemiology with Computer exercises
This is the course book which was conducted by University of Tartu, Estonia in May 2015. Slides of this book are here. A very helpful and easy to read book. For PPT of this book, click here.
http://bendixcarstensen.com/SPE/
R packages for epidemiological tests
There are different R packages to use to test different epidemiological tests/function which are
- Calculate risk difference and its confidence intervals
- Calculate risk ratio and its confidence intervals
- gsDesign which includes
Time-to-event sample size calculation
Tutorial on Meta-Analysis in R
A step by step and very detailed guide on how to do the meta analysis in R. You can even do a literature search through R package on
pubmed. It’s a PowerPoint presentation saved in PDF.
http://www.edii.uclm.es/~useR-2013/Tutorials/kovalchik/
How to calculate relative risk in R?
A guide with example on stackoverflow question and answer website. You can also search for many other R related question and answers.