Author
Name Claire Descombes
Affiliation Universitätsklinik für Neurochirurgie, Inselspital Bern
Degree MSc Statistics and Data Science, University of Bern
Contact claire.descombes@insel.ch

The reference material for this course, as well as some useful literature to deepen your knowledge of R, can be found at the bottom of the page.

1 Good practices

1.1 Primary vs Secondary outcomes

1.2 How to deal with missing data

References

Alexander Henzi. 2021. “Programming and Data Analysis with R.” Lecture notes.
Burns, Patrick. n.d. The R Inferno. Accessed May 8, 2025. https://www.burns-stat.com/documents/books/the-r-inferno/.
“ChatGPT.” n.d. Accessed January 26, 2025. https://chatgpt.com.
Christopher J. Endres. 2025. “Introducing nhanesA.” https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nhanesA/vignettes/Introducing_nhanesA.html.
“Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics.” n.d. Accessed January 26, 2025. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/.
David, Author. 2016. “BIRT Joins.” MBSE Chaos. https://mbsechaos.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/birt-joins/.
Elena Kosourova. n.d. “RStudio Tutorial for Beginners: A Complete Guide.” Accessed January 26, 2025. https://www.datacamp.com/tutorial/r-studio-tutorial.
Grolemund, Hadley Wickham and Garrett. n.d. R for Data Science. Accessed May 8, 2025. https://r4ds.had.co.nz/introduction.html.
Mayer, Michael. 2025. “Mayer79/Statistical_computing_material.” https://github.com/mayer79/statistical_computing_material.
Patrick Burns. n.d. Impatient R. Accessed May 8, 2025. https://www.burns-stat.com/documents/tutorials/impatient-r/.
“Synthetic Dataset for AI in Healthcare.” n.d. Accessed May 9, 2025. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/smmmmmmmmmmmm/synthetic-dataset-for-ai-in-healthcare.
“The Comprehensive R Archive Network.” n.d. Accessed January 26, 2025. https://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/.
W. N. Venables, D. M. Smith and the R Core Team. n.d. “An Introduction to R.” Accessed May 8, 2025. https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.html.
Wickham, Hadley. n.d. Advanced R. Accessed May 8, 2025. https://adv-r.hadley.nz/introduction.html.