Advanced stream epidemiology, IDEG training day

Vancouver, Monday December 7th, 2015

• Lecturers
  
  • Bendix Carstensen, Senior Statistician, Steno Diabetes Center & Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Ed Gregg, Chief, Epidemiology and Statistics Branch, Division of Diabetes Translation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Program,
• Slides
  
  • Ed Gregg: Slides, and handouts 3-up, 8-up
  • Bendix Carstensen: Slides, and handouts 3-up, 8-up
• Practical exercises
  The exercises are fairly short and intended to illustrate computaional aspects of the lectures.
  The practicals are primarily intended to be done in R or Stata for which datasets are available.
  If you intend to use a computer during the practicals and use R you should have the latest version of R (version 3.2.2) installed; also the package Epi (version 1.1.71)
  How to: While connected to the internet, click on "Packages" select a mirror (a server site, that is) from where to get the packages and subsequently select the packages.
• Check the installation by firing up R, typing: library(Epi) and checking the versions of R and the Epi package by typing sessionInfo()
• Data sets for practicals
• R programs with solutions for practicals