I wrote a short exercise on how to load *.csv and *.xlsx files into the R environment, which I posted on my RPubs site (link)
R - Tips and Tricks (Guide) - Part 2
I wrote a second R guide to help students navigate and use R and RStudio in their biostatistics course. I focused on creating vectors, matrices, and dataframes.
The guide can be found on my RPubs site.
Ratio of risk ratios in R
I ran into a problem where I had two risk ratios, but I wanted to evaluate the statistical difference between them. I couldn’t find an R package, but I found a paper by Altman and Bland that go over the step-by-step process. I wrote a tutorial on how to perform this method using R, which is available on my RPubs page (link).
Reference:
Altman DG, Bland JM. Interaction revisited: the difference between two estimates. BMJ. 2003 Jan 25;326(7382):219. doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7382.219. PMID: 12543843; PMCID: PMC1125071.
Transform data from wide to long format using R
Often, when we input data into a spreadsheet, we use the wide format where the sequence of variables are ordered according to the columns. But when we perform longitudinal analyses, we need to transform this to the long format.
Sometimes, I forget how to do this in R, so I decided to write a tutorial to remind myself how to do this.
Therefore, I wrote a tutorial on using the pivot_longer() function to transform data from the wide to long format in preparation for longitudinal data analysis. The tutorial is located on my RPubs page.
Generate data using the simstudy package in R
There are times when you are looking for a dataset to test a code or formula, but they are hard to find or are not publicly available. To get around this problem, we can generate our own data. R provides several tools for us to accomplish this.
I wrote a short guide on how to generate data using the simstudy package in R. You can read how to do this on my Rpub site (link).
Medication adherence estimations using R - Part 1
I created a tutorial on how to use the AdhereR package in R to estimate the medication adherence rate for a sample of individuals with prescription claims data. I posted the tutorial on my RPubs page (link).
The two most common medication adherence meaures are the Medication Possession Ratio (MPR) and the Proportion of Days Covered (PDC). This tutorial reviews how to estimate these medication adherence rates using AdhereR in R.
Propensity score matching in R
I wrote an introductory tutorial on how to perform propensity score matching using R, which has been posted on my RPubs site (link).
Propensity score matching is a statistical approach to balancing the observed covariates between groups. In observational studies, this method has the potential to mitigate potential confounding and allow us to make causal interpretations. However, there are a lot of approaches and nuances. This intorductory tutorial presents the basics of propensity score methods and how we can use these in our conventional analyses.
Prepost analysis with continuous data using R - Part 1
I wrote a tutorial on how to perform simple prepost analysis using R, which is available on my RPubs page. It covers how to compare two differences (change in value before and after an interention) using independent t test and linear regression approaches. However, it doesn’t cover how to address correlation between two dependent values. Part 2 of prepost analysis will cover those issues.
Tips and Tricks (Guide) with R and RStudio
I wrote a collection of tips and tricks (guide) for R and RStudio (link). This is a work in progress, and I plan to update this in the fiture.
Distributions in cost-effectiveness analysis
In cost-effectiveness analysis, we deal with uncertainty in our parameters by performing sensitivity analyses. In this article, I review how we can generate these distributions for common paramters in a cost-effectiveness analysis. You can view the article at my RPubs page.