Introduction to R and statistical packages in environmental epidemiology
University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2025
📆 April 28-29, 2025 🏫 Place-Guldhedsgatan 5, 43120, Gothenburg
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Description
This 2-days workshop is designed to build foundational skills in R, covering topics from importing, cleaning data to transforming it for analysis and data visualization. It also introduces essential statistical techniques used in environmental epidemiology, including Distributed Lag Non-linear Models (DLNM), Cox regression, time series analysis, as well as data visualization with ggplot2.
Learning objectives
- Develop proficiency in using R to import, clean, and transform data, ensuring it is analysis-ready.
- Understand and apply common statistical methods in environmental epidemiology, such as DLNM, Cox regression, and time series analysis.
- Master the creation of effective visualizations with ggplot2 to communicate data insights.
- Gain practical experience in preparing and analyzing environmental health data using R.
Schedule
Day 1
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome & Overview Introduction to workshop objectives and the R environment |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Data Import & Cleaning Hands-on session for importing and cleaning datasets |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Data Transformation Transforming data for analysis with practical examples |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology Overview of DLNM, Cox regression, and time series analysis |
| 2:30 - 2:45 | Break |
| 2:45 - 4:00 | Hands-on Analysis Applying statistical methods and creating visualizations using ggplot2 |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Wrap-up & Q&A Review of key concepts and open discussion |
Day 2 (Half-Day)
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Advanced Integration Combining data preparation, analysis, and visualization in R |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Project Work & Final Q&A Interactive session analyzing an environmental health dataset |
| 12:00 | Closing Final thoughts and workshop feedback |
Speaker
Luong Nguyen Thanh graduated from Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam and University of Liege, Belgium with honors. He is currently a PhD student at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research focuses on various topics of One Health, Global Health, and Sustainability. Alongside his academic pursuits, Luong is a skilled programmer, proficient in R and experienced in developing tools such as software packages, dashboards, Shiny applications, and Large Language Models. He is also at an intermediate level in Python and entry level of SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Learn more about Luong.