Ebook: Data Analysis in Medicine and Health using R

In medicine and health, data are analyzed to guide treatment plans, patient care and control and prevention policies. However, in doing so, researchers in medicine and health often lack the understanding of data and statistical concepts and the skills in programming. In addition, there is also an increasing demand for data analyses to be reproducible, along with more complex data that require cutting-edge analysis. This book provides readers with both the fundamental concepts of data and statistical analysis and modeling. It also has the skills to perform the analysis using the R programming language, which is the lingua franca for statisticians. The topics in the book are presented in a sequence to minimize the time to help readers understand the objectives of data and statistical analysis, learn the concepts of statistical modeling and acquire the skills to perform the analysis. The R codes and datasets used in the book will be made available on GitHub for easy access. The book will also be live on the website bookdown.org, a service provided by RStudio, PBC, to host books written using the bookdown package in the R programming language.