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The rise of R in public health research institutes

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Presentation by dr. Robby De Pauw, researcher at Sciensano.

Robby explains how R is used by researchers at Sciensano (the national health institute in Belgium). There are about 300 researchers in the institute and about 80% are using R. Robby covers

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