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

COURSE RESOURCE PAGE

Organizers

Course coordinator: Arun K Sharma, Department of Pediatrics

Venue: Department of Pediatrics, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Kathmandu

Ingvild Fossgard Sandøy

Director BCEPS

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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Wednesday, Sept. 30 - Pre-Course Day

INTRODUCTION TO THE R SOFTWARE AND R STUDIO

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Thursday, Oct. 1

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Overview, and fundamental concepts

09:00 - 10:00 Welcome and startup

Updated with minor additions, 16 June

opening.pdf8421.3KB

10:00 - 12:00 Some fundamentals

Updated 4 June, 14:44

1_clt_se_ci.pdf292.6KB

Updated 4 June, 15:15

2_pvals_ci.pdf420.8KB

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 14:00 Exercises

Uploaded 15 June, includes .ppt presentation by Ronald

exercises.zip691.7KB

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

Updated with minor corrections, 16 June

3_precision_power.pdf207.4KB

15:00 - 16:00 Exercises

Exercises on Power and Sample Size, by Ram and Ayushi

Updated 6 June, 14:40

Exercise-Power and Sample size.pdf67.0KB

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Friday, Oct. 2

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Generalized linear models (GLMs)

09:00 - 11:00 Linear regression

Updated 16 June, with minor corrections

linreg.pdf2632.6KB

11:00 - 12:00 Exercises

Exercises on linear regression, by Ram and Ayushi

Exercises_linear.zip386.5KB

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 15:00 Binomial regression

Updated 23 June, with minor additions

pres_binom.pdf1008.4KB

links.pdf836.3KB

15:00 - 16:00 Exercises

Exercises on Binomial regression, by Ram and Ayushi

Exercises-Binomial Regression.pdf76.9KB

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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 Follow-up on binomial regression

Updated 23 June, with minor additions

pres_binom_followup.pdf118.3KB

10:00 - 11:00 Interactions

interactions.pdf3479.4KB

11:00 - 12:00 Exercises

Exercises by Hans on interactions

Exercises.zip4.0KB

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

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

rct_intro.pdf5239.6KB

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

Updated 23 June

Gjessing_C19.pdf24891.9KB

15:00 - 16:00 Exercises

Exercises by Hans on interactions (cont’d)

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Tuesday, Oct. 6

FOCUS OF THE DAY: Count data, standardization

09:00 - 11:00 Poisson regression

Updated 23 June, with some minor additions

pres_Poisson.pdf4739.6KB

overdispersion.pdf2091.1KB

11:00 - 12:00 exercises

Exercises on Poisson regression, by Ronald

Poisson_exercises.zip22.5KB

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 15:00 Standardization methods

Updated 23 June, with some additions

pres_std.pdf168.8KB

15:00 - 16:00 Exercises

Cont’d from earlier today

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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

pres_surv.pdf6644.0KB

11:00 - 12:00 Exercises

Exercises on survival analyses, by Ram and Ayushi

exercises.zip129.7KB

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

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

additive_surv_short.pdf341.3KB

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

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