Intro Stats 2024

2024 R stats for biology students

This is a seminar course on using R for common statistical tests that you might do in your thesis. This will be an initial introduction to R and RStudio using a lot of the materials from our introductory biostatistics course. This site will also serve as a repository for the course materials we cover and also the specialized statistics we cover at the end of the term that we will do for your specific work.

I have found R to be a life changing program and use it nearly every day now.

Here is a page with all the example data files - Click HERE

Topics to be covered:

• Resources that are super helpful in using R - a lot of links and ideas

• Prior to class - setting up R and RStudio and installing essential libraries

• Install packages and load libraries

• Basics of project management

• Reading in and writing to files

• Plotting data - GGPlot basics

• Plotting - customizing plots in GGPlot

• Plotting - summary statistics - mean and SE