+ Intro to R & R Studio pre-course 30 September 2026

COURSE RESOURCE PAGE

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Lecturer and co-facilitators

Håkon K. Gjessing

Principal Investigator

CeFH, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Adjunct Professor

IGS, University of Bergen

Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Co-facilitators: Dagrun Slettebø Daltveit | Ayushi | Devashish Tripathi

LECTURE NOTES AND EXERCISES

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Files will be uploaded (and possibly updated!) as the course progresses

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NOTE: all uploaded files for the exercises and the pre-course day can be found at:

Jottacloud Nepal_course_2026

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Wednesday, Sept. 30 - Pre-Course Day

INTRODUCTION TO THE R SOFTWARE AND R STUDIO

Please pick up the pre-course files here:

Jottacloud 2026_09_30_Wednesday_R_precourse

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Thursday, Oct. 1

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Overview, and fundamental concepts

09:00 - 10:00 Welcome and startup

10:00 - 12:00 Some fundamentals

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 14:00 Exercises

Jottacloud exercises_day_1

14:00 - 15:00 Sample size and statistical power / statistical precision

15:00 - 16:00 Exercises

Jottacloud exercises_day_1

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Friday, Oct. 2

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Generalized linear models (GLMs)

09:00 - 11:00 Linear regression

(Some misprints corrected 3 Oct 26)

11:00 - 12:00 Exercises

Jottacloud exercises_day_2

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 15:00 Binomial regression

Jottacloud exercises_day_2

15:00 - 16:00 Exercises

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Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3-4

FOCUS OF THE DAYS: Self study/group work

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Monday, Oct. 5

FOCUS OF THE DAY: RCTs, other experimental designs

09:00 - 10:00 More on binomial regression

10:00 - 11:00 Interactions / Effect measure modification

11:00 - 12:00 Exercises

Jottacloud exercises_day_3

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 14:00 Some fundamental ideas behind RCTs

14:15 - 15:00 A “Modelling Case study” using binomial, Poisson, and time-to-event in Covid-19 modeling

15:15 - 15:45 Linear Regression and power, follow-up from Friday

15:45 - 16:30 Exercises

Jottacloud exercises_day_3

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Tuesday, Oct. 6

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Count data, standardization

09:00 - 11:00 Poisson regression

11:00 - 12:00 exercises

Jottacloud exercises_day_4

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 15:00 Standardization methods

15:00 - 16:00 Exercises

Jottacloud exercises_day_4

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Wednesday, Oct. 7

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Survival and event history analysis. Recap of central topics from the course.

09:00 - 11:00 Survival Analysis / Event History Analysis

11:00 - 12:00 Exercises

Jottacloud exercises_day_5

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 14:00 Additional topics in survival analysis

14:00 - 15:00 Summary, discussion, evaluation