Vancouver, BC
December 4 - 6
8:30am - 5:00pm
Ghement Statistical Consulting Company Ltd. is offering a 3-day statistical training course on December 4 - 6, 2019 in Vancouver, B.C., titled “A Practical Introduction to R and Tidyverse for Streamlined Data Analysis”. This hands-on course is intended for novice R users who would like to learn how to perform statistical data analyses in R or for intermediate R users who would like to consolidate their understanding of how R operates behind the scenes. Both types of users will benefit from the review of statistical concepts covered during the course.
The course will accommodate 18 participants and take place from 8:30am until 5:00pm on December 4, 5 and 6, 2019 (Wednesday - Friday). Day 1 of the course will cover data import/export, data summarization and data visualization with ggplot2. Day 2 of the course will cover hypothesis testing, basic statistical analyses and automated reporting with R markdown. Day 3 of the course will cover data cleaning, data manipulation and basic elements of R programming.
By the end of the course, participants will have a working knowledge of R. In particular, participants will be able to:
- Organize their R workflow;
- Read data into R and export data from R using the rio package;
- Clean up and massage data using the tidyr, dplyr and magrittr packages;
- Work with dates using the lubridate package;
- Create elegant and insightful data visualizations with the ggplot2 package;
- Produce descriptive statistics (e.g., means, medians, standard deviations, interquartile ranges, correlations);
- Perform basic tests of hypotheses (e.g., t-test, chi-square test), interpret their output and verify their assumptions;
- Perform basic statistical analyses such as simple/multiple linear regression, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), interpret their output and verify their assumptions;
- Write R functions and scripts for performing repetitive tasks;
- Produce simple automated reports which include tables, graphs and text using the intuitive R markdown language.
The attendance fee for the course is $885.00 + $44.25 GST = $929.25 per participant and includes a bound copy of the Course Notes, several handouts, a CD-ROM containing all course examples and exercises and 30 days of free course-related technical e-mail support following the course. The attendance fee also includes morning and afternoon coffee, tea and snacks. Groups of 3 or more participants from the same organization will receive a 10% discount when they register. The discounted attendance fee is $796.50 plus $39.83 GST = $836.33 per participant.
The registration deadline for this course is November 11, 2019. Registration forms can be downloaded from http://www.ghement.ca/Rform_Dec2019.html. Completed registration forms can be returned to us by e-mail: [email protected].
Further details about the course are available at http://www.ghement.ca/RCourseDec2019.html.
Participants are expected to bring their own laptops to the course, pre-loaded with R, R Studio and the recommended R packages.