PSI Training Course on R for SAS users (24th-25th March 2020) ****Early Bird Deadline 21st February**** (2 days away!) *Venue*:Crowne Plaza Hotel, Stockley Road, West Drayton, London UB7 9NA *Presenters*:Marco Munda (Pharmalex) and Maud Hennion (Pharmalex) The course is aimed at statisticians and programmers who may be experienced in SAS but have had none or little experience in R. R is becoming a popular statistical package in the pharmaceutical industry. R offers many benefits over traditional statistical packages, with enhanced graphical capabilities and extensive simulation abilities. This course will be a hands-on deep dive into R, so attendees should bring a laptop with the latest versions of R and R Studio installed. The following topics will be covered: - Introduction to R Studio (packages, installation and update, project creation, snippets, documentation) and to the R language - Statistical Graphics - Programming statistical models: - Simple linear regression - Multiple linear regression - Linear mixed effects regression - Logistic regression - Poisson regression - Survival regression - Overview of Bayesian analysis - Simulations - Reporting using R (R to rtf, and markdown) - Overview of R Shiny Please see the PSI page for more details: https://www.psiweb.org/ You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.