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Data Analysis in Medicine and Health using R

WEBThis book will minimise these struggles and gently help these excited but fragile new users to learn quickly and effectively the codes and workflows to perform data and statistical analysis using the R programming language. This book’s audiences include postgraduate students, public health researchers, epidemiologists, and biostatisticians.

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Population Health Data Science with R

WEBPHDS is a transdisciplinary field that integrates the expertise from public health and medicine, probability and statistics, computer science, decision sciences, health and behavioral economics, and human-centered design. PHDS is the future of public health data analysis and synthesis, and knowledge integration —.

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Population Health Data Science with R

WEBPopulation health data science (PHDS) is the art and science of transforming data into actionable knowledge to improve health. R is an open source programming environment for statistical computing and graphics. PHDS is captured by four words (describe, predict, discover, and advise) and extends epidemiology into five …

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Introduction to Regression Methods for Public Health …

WEBThere are a plethora of textbooks covering topics such as linear regression, logistic regression, and survival analysis aimed at those with a background in mathematical statistics and/or without a focus specifically on public health and/or without a focus on using R. The goal of this text is to provide a gentle introduction to regression

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Population Health Data Science with R

WEBPopulation health data science (PHDS) is the art and science of transforming data into actionable knowledge to improve health. R is an open source programming environment for statistical computing and graphics. PHDS is captured by four words (describe, predict, discover, and advise) and extends epidemiology into five analytic domains: descriptive …

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Chapter 1 Getting Started With R Population Health …

WEB1.3 Who should learn R?. Anyone that uses a calculator or spreadsheet, or analyzes numerical data at least weekly should seriously consider learning and using R. This includes data scientists, epidemiologists, statisticians, physician researchers, engineers, health economists, health systems analysts, business analysts, and faculty …

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Chapter 4 Simple Linear Regression Introduction to

WEBChapter 4. Simple Linear Regression. In this chapter, you will learn how to: Fit and visualize a curve using a polynomial function. Some of the R programming code used in this chapter uses elements of the tidyverse library ( Hadley Wickham 2023), in particular the pipe operator %>% and functions such as mutate().

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Introduction to R for Health Data Science

WEB1.1 Course objectives. Get you ‘up and running’ using R and RStudio on your machine. Introduce the basics of programming in R (a key skill for a health data scientist). Introduce good practices of workflows and reproducibility in data science. Enable you to develop your skills independently in programming and data science workflow.

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Fundamentals of Wrangling Healthcare Data with R

WEBFundamentals of Wrangling Healthcare Data with R. Data Wrangling is the process of gathering, selecting, transforming and mapping “raw data” into another format with the intent of making it more appropriate and valuable for a variety of downstream analytic purposes.. The Primary goal in data wrangling is to assure quality and useful data. Also known as …

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Reproducible Medical Research with R

WEBThis book is structured on the concept of a “spiral of success”, with readers learning about topics like data visualization, data wrangling, data modeling, reproducible research, and communication of results in repeated passes. These will initially be at a superficial level, and at each pass of the spiral, will provide increasing depth and

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8.1 Introduction Introduction to Regression Methods for Public …

WEB8.1. Introduction. In research we are often interested in quantifying some characteristic of a population, such as the prevalence of a condition, the average of a measurement, or the association between an exposure and a disease. Typically, we measure the characteristic in a sample of units from the population and use that information to make

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Chapter 7 Survival Analysis Introduction to Regression Methods …

WEBChapter 7. Survival Analysis. In this chapter, you will learn how to: Identify a time-to-event outcome; Identify types and mechanisms of censoring; Interpret the survival and hazard functions; Use the Kaplan-Meier method to estimate the survival function; Use the log-rank test to compare survival between groups; Visualize the Kaplan-Meier

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Chapter 10 Poisson regression Data Analysis in Medicine and …

WEB10.2 Introduction. Poisson regression is a regression analysis for count and rate data. As mentioned before in Chapter 7, it is is a type of Generalized linear models (GLMs) whenever the outcome is count. It also accommodates rate data as we will see shortly. Although count and rate data are very common in medical and health sciences, in our

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Scientific Research and Methodology

WEBPreface. This book is an introduction to quantitative research in the scientific and health disciplines. The whole research process is introduced, from asking a research question to analysis and reporting of the data. The focus, however, is on the analysis of data. Peter K. Dunn, 2021: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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A.5 NSDUH (2019) Introduction to Regression Methods for

WEBA.5 NSDUH (2019). Background. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), a product of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, measures the use of illegal substances, the use and misuse of prescribed substances, substance use disorder and …

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5.18 Box-Cox outcome transformation

WEB5.18. Box-Cox outcome transformation. Continuous variables that are highly skewed are common in public health. For example, any variable that is derived as the sum of multiple indicators will have all non-negative values and this often leads to a skewed distribution. For example, in Rogers et al. ( 2021), researchers log-transformed the skewed

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6.2 Interpretation of the logistic regression coefficients

WEB6.2 Interpretation of the logistic regression coefficients. How do we interpret the logistic regression coefficients? First, we need to get into some math. In the end, we will use R to do all the computations for us; however, it is important to see the math to understand how to interpret a logistic regression model.

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7.8 Fitting the Cox regression model Introduction to Regression

WEB7.8.2 Adjusted. When adjusting for other predictors, refer to hazard ratios as adjusted hazard ratios (AHR) and, when interpreting them, specify what you have adjusted for.. Example 7.6: Using the Natality teaching dataset, estimate the association between time to preterm birth and previous preterm birth (RF_PPTERM), adjusted for mother’s age …

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Science Research Methods: Tutorials

WEBPreface. This book has been prepared for use with the book Scientific Research and Methodology, to be used in the course Science Research Methods at the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC). This course is an introduction to quantitative research methods in the scientific, engineering and health disciplines.

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