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R Programming for Medical Research - Learning Roadmap

Introduction to R Programming

Why use R for research and data analysis

Installing R and RStudio

RStudio basics: console, script editor, environment, and packages


R Programming for Medical Research - Learning Roadmap
Basic R Programming

Data types and structures in R (vectors, matrices, data frames, lists)

Basic operations and functions

Importing and exporting data (CSV, Excel, SPSS files)


R Programming for Medical Research - Learning Roadmap
Data Cleaning and Preparation

Handling missing data

Data transformations (filtering, selecting, mutating)

Basic data wrangling with dplyr and tidyr packages


R Programming for Medical Research - Learning Roadmap
Descriptive Statistics and Exploratory Data Analysis

Summary statistics (mean, median, mode, variance, etc.)

Frequency distributions and cross-tabulations

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) for identifying patterns and insights


R Programming for Medical Research - Learning Roadmap
Data Visualization

Introduction to ggplot2 for creating visualizations

Common plots in medical research (histograms, bar plots, box plots)

Customizing plots for publication-quality figures


R Programming for Medical Research - Learning Roadmap
Statistical Analysis in R

Hypothesis testing (t-tests, chi-square tests)

Correlation and regression analyses

ANOVA and MANOVA

Survival analysis (Kaplan-Meier curves, Cox regression)


R Programming for Medical Research - Learning Roadmap
Advanced Data Analysis Techniques

Logistic regression for binary outcomes

Mixed-effects models for repeated measures data

ROC curves and predictive model performance


R Programming for Medical Research - Learning Roadmap
Reporting Results

Formatting tables and results for research papers

Generating summary tables using tableone and gtsummary packages

Creating reproducible reports with R Markdown


R Programming for Medical Research - Learning Roadmap
Practice and Project Ideas

Basic data exploration on a sample clinical dataset

Visualizing trends and outcomes over time

Regression analysis on patient outcomes

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