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In this page you will find educational resources related to Biostistics. That  includes announcements about events, material for online workshops, material related to workshops that we held in person, and other resources. If you have any questions or suggestions, please, contact Marcos (marcos.sanches@camh.ca).

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Event Schedule

 


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R & SPSS Workshop Series (Jan-Mar 2025)

SPSS Workshop Recordings

R Workshop Recordings


Meta-Analysis Workshop (Nov 2024)

Meta-Analysis Workshop Recordings

R & SPSS Workshop Series (Jan-Feb 2024)

SPSS Workshop Recordings

R Workshop Recordings


R & SPSS Workshop Series (Feb-Apr 2023)

SPSS Workshop Recordings

R Workshop Recordings



Past Events

SPSS and R Workshop Series (Apr-Jun 2022)

SPSS Workshop Meterial

R Workshop Material

SPSS Workshop Series (Feb-Apr 2021)

11 workshops held on Webex You can access the recordings and do the assignments!

Access the material here!

Computing Fundamentals - Introduction to R (Oct 2020)

Video 1 - Introducting myself and some quick stats background (7m19s)

Video 2 - Introduction to R and RStudio. Split in three parts: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, each with around 25 minutes.

CSV Dataset - This is the dataset we used in the workshop.

RMarkdown - This is the markdown file with instructions and script that we used.

HTML Output - This is the output from the RMarkdown file in HTML format, which you can read in your web browseDue to the Covid situation we have no workshop scheduled at the moment. Please, check again as the situation improves.



Online Workshops and Tutorials

In this section you will find material that helps you to learn software and statistics related to the work you do in your research at CAMH.

SPSS

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Online Workshops

Since 2016 we have had frequent series of SPSS workshops. These workshops are delivered in person, in the CAMH computer lab. They expanded from the initial introductory courses to the current series that inovlves more than 10 different topics of interest to CAMH researchers. 

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  1. Download this PDF file and follow it by actively using SPSS.


What is SPSS?

Video 1 - You will learn:

  1. What is SPSS and how it store data
  2. General concepts of rows and columns in a dataset
  3. Elements of data and metadata

Typing in data

Vido 2 - You will learn:

  1. Define variable names, labels and values
  2. Type of variables
  3. How to enter data into SPSS manually

Importing Data into SPSS

Video 3 - You will learn:

  1. How to open an SPSS dataset
  2. How to read Excel datasets
  3. How to read CSV (comma separated values) datasets

Download this CSV Dataset, this SPSS Dataset and this Excel Dataset, and then follow the video!


SPSS Frequency and Crosstab

Video 4 - You will learn:

  1. How to use Freuqencies
  2. How to use Crosstabs
  3. Type of variables.

The activities in this video uses this SPSS Dataset


SPSS Means

Video 5 - You will learn:

  1. How to calculate statistics for continuous variables
  2. Use of Frequency, Means and Descriptives

The activities in this video uses this SPSS Dataset. 


Introduction to SPSS Syntax

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  1. Watch this video. Here I just give you a quick introduction to syntax and some tips. 
  2. Download this SPSS Dataset, a this  SPSS Syntax File


R

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Online Workshops

Introduction to R

Here you will find a collection of videos and auxiliary material to help you get started with R. We will go into basic concepts that will make you familiar and comfortable with the software, which for some will may be sufficient to achieve their goals. We strongly recommend that if you dont have experience with R, you start here. A good wau tp follow these videos is by trying to do it yourself in your computer. 

There are not pre

What is R and RStudio?

Video 1 - Watch this short video to get a feeling for what R and RStudio are, even before you install R in your computer.  - You will learn:

  1. What is R
  2. What is R Studio

Installing R and RStudio

Video 2 - Here we show you where You will learn:

  1. How to find and download R and

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  1. R Sutdio
  2. How to install R and R Studio 

Opening RStudio and creating a project

Video 3- Here we show you what is an RStudio project and how to create one before you do your data analysis.  You will learn:

  1. Opening R Studio
  2. What is a R Studio Project
  3. Creating a R Studio Project

R Script and R Markdown

Video 4 - You will learn: 

  1. What is R Script and

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  1. R Markdown
  2. Why you should use them
  3. How to Create a new R Script and R Markdown
  4. How to run scripts in R Script and R Markdown

R Packages

Video 5- Here you You will learn about R packages, how to find, install, load and use them.:

  1. What is a R Package
  2. How to find the package you need
  3. How to Install and Load a package
  4. How to use a package

Dataset Format CSV   and   Dataset Format SPSS  SPSS and CSV datasets - Please, download these datasets so that you can follow the activities in the video.

Importing a dataset into R

Video 6 - Here you You will learn how :

  1. How to

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  1. import your data into R

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SPSS and CSV datasets - Please, download these datasets so that you can follow the activities in the video.

Statistics

A quick introduction to statistical inference and p-values 

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  1. Inspecting the data
  2. Different types of R objects


Statistics

P-values and the Scientific Method.

Video 1- You will learn:

  1. The scientific method
  2. How not to use p-value
  3. Definition of p-value


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