__The Edinburgh Cancer Information Programme
This comprehensive four-day course provides essential statistical knowledge for Clinical Oncology and Medical Oncology specialty trainees. Designed to meet the requirements of the FRCR Part 1 examination and the Specialty Certificate Examination (SCE) in Medical Oncology, basic skills in data analysis and interpretation are also introduced. More information can be found here: Oncology Statistics
…Our new R package! Methods developed in social network science have been successfully applied in the biomedical domain over for the past two decades. Examples include splitting biological networks into communities, to discover highly enriched complexes with specific diseases and functions. We developed the Bioconductor package BioNAR to provide biomedical researchers with a network analysis […]
Data Scientist Giovanni Tramonti has produced an implementation of the NHS Predict decision tool for batch processing. Available on the R CRAN. This is useful for producing a patient-level mortality risk estimate from breast cancer staging information. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nhs.predict/index.html
HealthyR: R for Healthcare Data Analysis is an amazing 2.5 day quick start course run by Surgical Informatics. This introduces healthcare researchers with no experience of using the industry-standard R computer coding language for data science. It takes an innovative approach, is delivered on bespoke servers, and uses code specially designed for education. Free HealthyR resources and […]
