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On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, 16:13 Hugo Tavares, <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Bianca, > > I agree with Paul's comment that "biostatistics" is a very broad thing to > aim for. > > From several years of doing R training to biologists (postgraduates, PhDs, > postdocs), I would say that a really important skill that seems lacking is > getting good at manipulating data and doing exploratory data analysis - in > other words, learning to ask questions from data. > > This is the essence of the "Data Carpentry with R" workshop: > https://datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/ > > Although it's called "ecology" lesson, it's really about learning > principles of "tidy" data structures, how to manipulate those data and > visualise them in a number of ways. I think getting people good at > exploratory data analysis is, by itself, very powerful, regardless of the > field people later work on (biostatistics or not). > > In any case, this tour de force from Susan Holmes and Wolfgang Huber might > be helpful to choose the focus for such a course: > https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/ > (but it also illustrates how broad the field is) > > Regarding SPSS vs R, I would say that if the focus is biostatistics, the > existence of R/Bioconductor <https://bioconductor.org/> should suffice to > make a very strong argument for R. (plus learning a scripting language > encourages reproducibility skills as mentioned above, which I think SPSS > does not easily offer). > > Hope this helps! > hugo > > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T7aec92fdeda8ec4b-Mcc9c1abeb710cfb0ddacb0f8> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T7aec92fdeda8ec4b-M7619734a9d5c1a35f8fb76d1 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
