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Use of the statistical software R
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3314-18-00-01 
Enrollment deadline: 05/10/2018
Date and time05.11.2018, at: 08:00 - 09.11.2018, at: 15:00
Regular seats27
Course fee2,040.00 kr.
LecturersTheis Lange
ECTS credits2.10
Contact personSusanne Kragskov Laupstad    E-mail address: skl@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD administration     E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content
This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.

The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee.

Learning objectives
To enable the student to work with the statistical software R. R is a free (based on open source principles) statistical software package, which is supported by a very large international research community. The program can be used to do all types of statistical analyses. Due to the open principles and the large supporting research community the latest statistical techniques are almost always available in R long before the commercial programs (SAS, SPSS, Stata).

Content
We will explain basic use of R; from data management through descriptive statistics and standard analysis to downloading and using packages with the latest statistical techniques from the web. Roughly half of the course will be spent doing exercises in the computer-rooms or using your own laptop. Main focus will be on the use of R, but there will also be time for discussing more statistical aspects of the methods. The whole course will be structured around a few real life cases.

You must bring your own laptop with R and R Studio installed.

Participants
PhD-students. Knowledge of basic statistics at a level corresponding to ”Basic statistics for health researchers” will be advantageous. Max. 27 participants.

Relevance to graduate programmes
The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH:

All graduate programmes


Language
Danish or English.

Form
Forum lectures with class exercises.

Course director
Associate professor Theis Lange.

Teachers
Theis Lange, Associate Professor, Section of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen

Dates
5., 7., 9. November 2018 all days 8-15.

Course location
Center for Sundhed og Samfund (CSS)

Registration
Please register before 5 October 2018

Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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