Statistical Tools

Introductory statistics books

  • Medical Statistics at a Glance: Petrie A and Sabin C.
    Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 2009.
  • An introduction to medical statistics (fourth edition): Martin Bland.
    Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015.
  • Essential Medical Statistics (second edition): Betty Kirkwood and Jonathan Sterne. Published by Oxford University Press 2003.

Statistics notes in the BMJ

http://www.bmj.com/specialties/statistics-notes
https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mb55/pubs/pbstnote.htm

Online tools to illustrate/explore statistical ideas

http://wise.cgu.edu/portfolio

UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education

(Great one stop resource for R, SAS, SPSS, Stata):
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/

Dr Mark Lunt’s STATA course (ARUK Centre for Epidemiology, Manchester, UK)

Excellent open Access STATA course Beginners/Intermediate levels, followed by guide on multiple imputation, Propensity Scores and STATA software.
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/mark.lunt/

Online support videos

SPSS Youtube channels: Andy Field (to accompany his book)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL25257A24840423AE

Stata Youtube channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/statacorp

Missing Data/ Statistical Modeling Resources

http://www.missingdata.org.uk/
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/online-course/index.html

A game for some light relief:

http://guessthecorrelation.com

Official R website

Official website of the R project, with general information, R tutorials, downloads, etc.
https://www.r-project.org/

Comprehensive R Archive Network website

Direct access to the latest version of R (for Windows, Mac or Linux) as well as the most recent updates for R-related software.
https://cran.r-project.org/

R commander

More than a simply graphical interface, R commander facilitates the use of R, from data importation to complex data representation. This website includes information on downloads, instructions and plugins.
http://www.rcommander.com/

R Studio

Like R commander, R studio provides a “friendly” which makes easier the use of R using a set of tools under a simple console.
https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download3

R for Epidemiology

Epi package
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Epi/index.html

Epitools
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/epitools/index.html

Some resources from Harvard School of Public Health
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k91599&pageid=icb.page570101

Tutorials, manuals and more

Official R manuals

General and specific R manuals developed by the R Developmental Core.
https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html

An Introduction to R for Epidemiologists

Brief description of the functions and packages of R for epidemiological research (by C. DiMaggio, from NY University)
http://www.columbia.edu/~cjd11/charles_dimaggio/DIRE/resources/R/packages.pdf

Applied Epidemiology Using R

An open access book covering most of the aspects of working with R for Epidemiology (by T.J. Aragón, from the University of California).
http://www.medepi.net/docs/EpidemiologyUsingR.pdf

The R Journal

Periodical journal on new packages, applications and other areas of interest for R users and developers.
https://journal.r-project.org/

Other useful resources for R (All levels)

http://www.cookbook-r.com/
http://www.statmethods.net/
http://ggplot2.org/ (plotting package in R)

Personal webpages of Hadley Wickham

(creator of some of the best R packages for data processing, Chief Scientist at RStudio)
http://hadley.nz/