Introduction to R

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Abstract

In this talk I will provide an introduction into R and RStudio. I will provide a live demonstration of R and RStudio, discuss their advantages and walk through a tutorial to show the ease of doing analyses in R. I provide additional materials that can be studied by the participants in anticipation of the Q&A session in three weeks time.

Date
Jul 8, 2020 11:00 AM — 12:30 PM
Event
Presentation for Optentia, NWU.
Location
Online meeting via zoom, hosted by eventbrite.
Online via zoom, hosted by eventbrite.
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Duco Veen

I currently hold an Assistant Professor position at the department of methodology and statistics situated at Utrecht University. I'm involved in the COVID-RED, and Trials@Home projects. Besides that I'm appointed as Extraordinary Professor at the Optentia Research Programme of North-West University, South Africa. I'm involved in the Stan project. Stan is “freedom-respecting, open-source software for facilitating statistical inference at the frontiers of applied statistics”. I work on the development of ShinyStan.