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