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).
Event Schedule
Due 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 Related Material
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.
To the extent of possible, we will try to make available here the material of those workshops, or online versions of them.
Introduction to SPSS
SPSS is probably the most popular software for Statistical Analysis at CAMH, and one that is accessible to researchers. The material available here will allow you to have a first and basic experience with SPSS, from opening the software, to importing data, doing some simple data cleaning and data analysis tasks. The material is currently in PDF format but it is in our priority list to have it also in video format.
- Download this PDF file and follow it by actively using SPSS.
Introduction to SPSS Syntax
In order for your data analysis to be reproducible, you need to keep a record of all you did. Ideally, that means everything from reading the initial dataset to your published results. Doing data cleaning and data analysis using script is the perfect way to make your research reproducible.
SPSS Syntax here does not mean SPSS programming. We just want you to know that is easy to do anything in SPSS using Syntax, and get you comfortable with it. As such, this course is very introductory, we don't expect you to have a high level of SPSS or programing knowledge in order to understand it. We do expect that you know SPSS at the introductory level, that you already know how to do some basica analysis using the point & click menu.
- Watch this video. Here I just give you a quick introduction to syntax and some tips.
- Download this SPSS Dataset, a this SPSS Syntax File.
R Related Material
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.
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.
Installing R and RStudio
Video 2 - Here we show you where to find R and RStudio in the internet, and which version to install in your computer.
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.
R Script and R Markdown
Video 4 - Script and Markdown files are a good way to keep a record of the data cleaning and data analysis that you did. Here we go through the steps to create your first script and markdown files.
Statistics
Common Misuse of Statistics in Research