Introduction In R Data One-proportion test Assumption of prop.test() and binom.test() Chi-square goodness of fit test Does my distribution follow a given distribution? Observed frequencies Expected frequencies Observed vs. expected frequencies By hand One-proportion test Verification in R Goodness of fit test Verification in R Introduction In a previous article, I presented the Chi-square test of independence in R which is used to test the independence between two categorical variables. In this article, I show how...

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Introduction Installation Download all books at once Create a table of Springer books Download only specific books By title By author By subject Acknowledgments Introduction You probably already have seen that Springer released about 500 books for free following the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Springer, these textbooks will be available free of charge until at least the end of July. Following this announcement, I already downloaded a couple of statistics...

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Introduction Top R resources on Coronavirus Coronavirus dashboard for your own country Motivations, limitations and structure of the article Analysis of Coronavirus in Belgium A classic epidemiological model: the SIR model Fitting a SIR model to the Belgium data Reproduction number \(R_0\) Using our model to analyze the outbreak if there was no intervention More summary statistics Additional considerations Ascertainment rates More sophisticated models Modelling the epidemic trajectory using log-linear models Estimating changes...

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Introduction Top R resources on Coronavirus Coronavirus dashboard: the case of Belgium How to create your own Coronavirus dashboard Additional notes Data Open source Accuracy Coronavirus dashboard: the case of Belgium Introduction The Novel COVID-19 Coronavirus is the hottest topic right now. Every day, the media and newspapers share the number of new cases and deaths in several countries, try to measure the impacts of the virus on citizens...

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Introduction Perform multiple tests at once Concise and easily interpretable results T-test ANOVA To go even further Photo by Teemu Paananen Introduction As part of my teaching assistant position in a Belgian university, students often ask me for some help in their statistical analyses for their master’s thesis. A frequent question is how to compare groups of patients in terms of several quantitative continuous variables. Most of us...

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R Shiny apps Coronavirus tracker COVID-19 outbreak R packages {nCov2019} R code Analyzing COVID-19 outbreak data with R COVID-19 Data Analysis with {tidyverse} and {ggplot2} Data Photo by CDC The Coronavirus is a serious concern around the...

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Introduction Null and alternative hypothesis Hypothesis testing Two versions of the one sample t-test How to compute the one sample t-test by hand? Scenario 1: variance of the population is known Scenario 2: variance of the population is unknown How to compute the one sample t-test in R? Scenario 1: variance of the population is known Scenario 2: variance of the population is unknown Confidence interval Assumptions Photo by Helloquence Introduction After having...

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What is probability? 1. A probability is always between 0 and 1 2. Compute a probability 3. Complement of an event 4. Union of two events 5. Intersection of two events 6. Independence of two events 7. Conditional probability Bayes’ theorem Example 8. Accuracy measures False negatives False positives Sensitivity Specificity Positive predictive value Negative predictive value 9. Counting techniques Multiplication Example Permutation Example By hand In R Combination Example By hand In R Photo by Josh Appel What is probability? Probability is the likelihood of an event occurring;...

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Introduction Null and alternative hypothesis Hypothesis testing Different versions of the Student’s t-test How to compute Student’s t-test by hand? Scenario 1: Independent samples with 2 known variances Scenario 2: Independent samples with 2 equal but unknown variances Scenario 3: Independent samples with 2 unequal and unknown variances Scenario 4: Paired samples where the variance of the differences is known Scenario 5: Paired samples where the variance of...

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Introduction Correlation matrix Correlogram Correlation test Code Photo by Pritesh Sudra Introduction Correlation, often computed as part of descriptive statistics, is a statistical tool used to study the relationship between two variables, ...

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