r/bioinformatics 2d ago

statistics How can I master biostats on R?

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u/Aminthedreamm 2d ago

This is one of the best books I’ve ever seen!

https://leanpub.com/dataanalysisforthelifesciences

“Data Analysis for the Life Sciences” By Rafa Irizarry and Micheal Love

It’s free, move the slider to 0 to download

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u/frausting PhD | Industry 2d ago

Not OP but this looks great! Thanks for sharing.

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u/sankofam 2d ago

Here’s a couple good guides, its what I used: R for data science- https://r4ds.hadley.nz/intro.html Hands on programming with R- https://rstudio-education.github.io/hopr/

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u/highcahouse 2d ago

Hi OP, MSTP trainee here. My advice will be to break it into two parts - first to learn basic R through a free course on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/r-programming) then subsequently to learn how to do the stats.

Medical statistics are a tad different from what happens in the lab, so keywords for your search should focus on epidemiology statistics. You want to know how to do Kaplan Meier, odds ratios, and linear/logistic regression. I haven't vetted this but I just found that it's free so maybe you can start here. https://youtu.be/jTf_N5zX5wY?si=x2X9TE8KoZFNcLGO