Introduction: Overcoming the Fear of Coding

• The mindset shift: From apprehension to confidence

• Why R and RStudio?

• Course structure and expectations

Session 1: RStudio Infrastructure (May 10, 2025 | 2 hours)

• Installing R and RStudio

• Navigating the interface: Script, Console, Environment, and Help windows

• Customizing layouts and shortcuts

• How to access help (?function, R Documentation, online forums)

Session 2: Data Types & Structures (May 11, 2025 | 2 hours)

• Core data types: numeric, character, logical, factors

• Data structures: vectors, lists, matrices, and data frames

• Checking and converting data types

• Hands-on exercises: Creating and inspecting structures

Session 3: Data Manipulation (May 17, 2025 | 2 hours)

• Subsetting and filtering data

• Reshaping data: gather() and spread() (from tidyr)

• Handling missing values

• Introduction to dplyr verbs (select(), filter(), mutate())

• Hands-on exercises: Data Manipulation

Session 4: Exploratory Data Analysis (May 18, 2025 | 2 hours)

• Descriptive statistics (mean, median, variance)

• Basic visualizations: histograms, boxplots, scatter plots (ggplot2)

• Identifying patterns and outliers

• Hands-on exercises: Exploring a dataset

Session 5: Statistical Data Analysis (May 24, 2025 | 2 hours)

• Hypothesis testing: t-tests and chi-square tests

• Correlation analysis

• Interpreting and presenting results

• Hands-on exercises: Test selected hypotheses

Session 6: Linear Regression Analysis  (May 25, 2025 | 2 hours)

• From correlation to simple linear regression

• Multiple Linear Regression

• Model Selection and Interpretation

Session 7: Next Steps & Resources (May 31, 2025 | 2 hours)

• Packages for advanced analysis (e.g., lme4, caret)

• R Markdown for reproducible reports

• Recommended books, communities, and courses

Target Audience: Are you a researcher or a programming enthusiast? Then this course is for you. You need no prior knowledge in statistics or programming. However, knowledge of basic statistics will be an advantage. 

Dates: 

Saturdays : 10,17,24 and 31st May 2025: 16:30h-18:30h

Sundays: 11,18 and 25th May 2025: 16:30h-18:30h

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