Using R as an Epidemiologist Assessment of real-world data
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Meetup Description
R-Ladies Dammam and R-Ladies Gaborone co-host this talk describing how Brianna Lindsay PhD uses and has used R as an epidemiologist in industry and academia. The focus of the talk will review how she approaches a dataset, important lessons learned about ‘dirty’ real-world data and the basics of data exploration using R and R Studio.
Using R as an Epidemiologist
According to Frerot et al., 2017,Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states of events in specified populations. Brianna shows us Epidemiology analysis with;
grouping aggregate data using summarytools package
pre-post analysis with tidyverse, and
power analysis with pwr package