Ended: March 22, 2018
This four-session seminar series will be offered on Thursdays in February and March. In this series, participants will review statistical approaches commonly used in research. Each of the four sessions will focus on a different theme using concrete and realistic examples. In particular, you will learn how to perform specific types of analyses in the class using the statistical package called R, which is a free software package. This course is intended for investigators who are interested in clinical research.
Course Outline:
Session 1 – Introduction to statistics and computing
Session 2 – Linear regression
Session 3 – Survival Analysis
Session 4 – Repeated Measures
You can download R from this website http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/. R is a very powerful statistical package. The dataset that we will analyze each week will be posted course site. The datasets will be saved in comma delimited format, which can be imported into all statistical packages.
Speaker: Brian Healy, PhD, MGH Biostatistics Center
Registration is required. Please contact dcredu@partners.org with any questions.
This course is part of a series in Biostatistics which also includes courses in Basic Biostatistics. Upon completion of this series, participants will be able to: utilize biostatistics in the design of clinical research studies and perform statistical analyses.
Programs: Experienced Clinical Research Coordinator Clinical Research Investigator Beginner Clinical Research Coordinator
Categories: Biostatistics Clinical Research Clinical Trials
Sponsor: MGH Division of Clinical Research
Sessions
| Introduction to Statistics and Computing |
March 1, 2018
03/1/18 1:30PM-3PM |
1:30 PM – 3 PM |
Simches 3.110, Floor 3, Simches Research Center
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| Introduction to Statistics and Computing |
March 8, 2018
03/8/18 1:30PM-3PM |
1:30 PM – 3 PM |
Simches 3.110, Floor 3, Simches Research Center
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| Introduction to Statistics and Computing |
March 15, 2018
03/15/18 1:30PM-3PM |
1:30 PM – 3 PM |
Simches 3.110, Floor 3, Simches Research Center
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| Introduction to Statistics and Computing |
March 22, 2018
03/22/18 1:30PM-3PM |
1:30 PM – 3 PM |
Simches 3.110, Floor 3, Simches Research Center
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Other Offerings
| Past Offerings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Applied Biostatistics for Clinical Trials | Introduction to Statistics and Computing |
Feb. 11, 2021
02/11/21 |
| Applied Biostatistics for Clinical Trials | Introduction to Statistics and Computing |
Feb. 28, 2020
02/28/20 |
| Applied Biostatistics for Clinical Trials | Introduction to Statistics and Computing |
March 1, 2019
03/1/19 |
| Applied Biostatistics for Clinical Trials | Introduction to Statistics and Computing |
March 2, 2017
03/2/17 |
Reviews
Anonymous: Very good course. The teacher is fantastic! Thank you!
Date Reviewed: March 5, 2021, 9:01 a.m.
Kai Y: This is my second time taking the class. Still learned a lot! Brian is such a nice teacher who can explain things so well. Everything I learned from this class has huge impact on my research work. Thank you! Give my highest rating!
Date Attended: March 4, 2021, 10:29 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:42 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:42 a.m.
Anastasie M: Dr Healy transmits really well his passion for statistics. Easily accessible for any level, you will quickly understand statistics and really enjoy it! Thank you for these great lectures. I greatly recommend!
Date Attended: March 4, 2021, 10:27 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:39 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:39 a.m.
Anonymous: Dr Healy is an excellent lecturer and very good at breaking down concepts in a clear way. It was a great introduction to using R and I know I'll be able to build my skills now that I can use the basic functions. Thank you!
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:32 a.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:18 a.m.
Adam F:
Date Attended: March 4, 2021, 10:27 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:12 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:12 a.m.
Amy M:
Date Attended: March 4, 2021, 10:27 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:01 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 11:01 a.m.
Anonymous: Overall, both the instructor and the content were great. But four sessions are not enough to cover everything therefore the instructor had to go very fast through the content. It would be great to present the content in more sessions.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 10:55 a.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 10:33 a.m.
Felipe F: Brian is amazing and really passionate about the content. His lectures are engaging and extremely helpful.
Date Attended: March 4, 2021, 10:28 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 10:32 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 10:32 a.m.
Anonymous: Dr Healy is a wonderful teacher, highly recommend this course.
Date Reviewed: March 4, 2021, 10:29 a.m.
Jorge R: Dr Healy is an outstanding biostatistics professor, I enjoyed a lot all the topics covered in this comprehensive class
Date Attended: March 20, 2020, 10:03 a.m.
Date Reviewed: June 30, 2020, 10:22 a.m.
Date Reviewed: June 30, 2020, 10:22 a.m.
Piero M:
Date Attended: March 20, 2020, 10:02 a.m.
Date Reviewed: April 17, 2020, 2:34 p.m.
Date Reviewed: April 17, 2020, 2:34 p.m.
Emad Salman S: Dr. Healey nailed each & every concept of R & biostatistics with par excellence. Undoubtedly, it's a privilege & honor to be taught by a very nice, kind, humble and a person with good sense of humor. It was one of the best learning experience of my life. Not only I learned about biostatistics but also about effective teaching & engaging presentation skills as well. Thanks MGH Research Institute for making this possible. I would like to know if there is any video available for entire course ?? It will be really helpful if we will have the video of entire course so that we an re-visit & revise whenever we feel stuck in R.
Thanks and Stay safe.
Date Attended: April 17, 2020, 8:41 a.m.
Date Reviewed: April 17, 2020, 10:50 a.m.
Date Reviewed: April 17, 2020, 10:50 a.m.
Muhammad Abubakar A: Dr. Heiley explained everything with details and cleared all the concepts. And the Powerpoint presentations are very useful. We can practice all the concepts by using these presentations.
Date Attended: March 20, 2020, 9:59 a.m.
Date Reviewed: April 1, 2020, 1:06 p.m.
Date Reviewed: April 1, 2020, 1:06 p.m.
Itika G:
Date Reviewed: March 25, 2020, 10:15 a.m.
Evangelos Pavlos M:
Date Attended: March 27, 2020, 9:08 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 20, 2020, 11:48 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 20, 2020, 11:48 a.m.
Davide V: Great comprehensive course, starting from very basic topics, no previous training required. Dr Healy is very clear in explaining statistics!
Date Attended: March 20, 2020, 10:04 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 20, 2020, 11:27 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 20, 2020, 11:27 a.m.
Sara G: Can't say enough good things about Dr Healy. His material is very clear and well-delivered, and he's responsive to people's questions during class (is good about repeating the question and re-phrasing as-needed in a way that everyone understands the question and his answer to it). His love for the topic really comes through, and makes you love it too! So overall, very accessible course. What a like most is that it's not just a simple set of instructions (i.e. "this is *what* to do") but he also demonstrates *why* to do. The philosophy behind good, ethical statistical practice is such a welcome and much needed element to any statistical course in healthcare. I would love a course that continues the series to more advanced methods.
Date Attended: March 22, 2019, 9:52 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2019, 3:23 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2019, 3:23 p.m.
Joo Won C:
Date Attended: March 22, 2019, 9:56 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2019, 1:02 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2019, 1:02 p.m.
Jiuju W: Excellent class! Good teacher!
Date Attended: March 22, 2019, 10:12 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 7:26 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 7:26 p.m.
Ludmilla C:
Date Attended: Feb. 25, 2021, 10:34 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 2:44 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 2:44 p.m.
Courtney L: Great class! Wish we had more time since there was certainly a lot of material to cover! Brian is super great at explaining complex content and is funny too! I would love to see another set of classes past Basic and Applied. We need a part 3 with more R!
Date Attended: March 22, 2019, 9:59 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 2:18 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 2:18 p.m.
Anonymous: Excellent course, albeit, too short for the amount of material covered. Dr. Brian Healy is an amazing and enthusiastic teacher, and is great with answering questions. Explains very well and takes the time to make sure everyone is understanding the material. Wish the course could be done over 6-8 weeks.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 1:44 p.m.
Jing C: The instructor's enthusiasm for statistics is unparalleled. His willingness and patience to repeat problems until you understand really helps anchor the foundation of analytics in R. I would recommend this course for anyone who has never used R before and is looking to take the next step in streamlining analytics and creating beautiful visuals within R. My only issue with this course is that it was too short. I know that if this was a full fledged course, I may have involuntarily fallen in love with statistics.
Date Attended: March 22, 2019, 10:04 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 1:41 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 1:41 p.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 12:56 p.m.
Anonymous: Second course I have taken with Brian and he is always such a great instructor!
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
Charlotte L:
Date Attended: March 22, 2019, 10 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 12:31 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 12:31 p.m.
Anonymous: Amazing course! Dr. Healy is an excellent and enthusiastic instructor. While in the past I cannot say I particularly enjoyed learning about statistics, thanks to Dr. Healy that has most definitely changed. It turns out, as he has pointed out so many times, that statistics is indeed fun! Very fortunate to have such an instructor here.
To get more than a first glimpse into R, the course could have definitely been longer.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 12:18 p.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
Anonymous: One of the best statistics classes I have taken!
Instructor, Brian Healy, was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable in the subject.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 11:49 a.m.
Ahmed G: great course for beginners like myself who have never done stats.
A longer course could have covered more content.
Wish there was another course for SPSS.
Date Attended: March 22, 2019, 10:04 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 10:39 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2019, 10:39 a.m.
Anonymous: I took this course for both a refresher of the biostatistics topics covered and the use of R as the statistical package. Dr. Healy is an excellent, engaged instructor and I hope he continues to offer biostats courses in the future. This served as an excellent review of topics I was familiar with as well as introduction to other analyses (e.g. survival methods) that I have not personally used before, but can now immediately apply to my research.
Date Reviewed: March 28, 2018, 3:53 p.m.
Anonymous: This was a great introduction to bio-statistics. The only fault is that there were too few sessions to cover a good scope of content.
Date Reviewed: March 27, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
Masoud B:
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:25 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 27, 2018, 11:36 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 27, 2018, 11:36 a.m.
Lindsey V: Excellent course! It was an informative introduction to basic skills in R which are necessary for the kind of research undertaken by our group. The instructor kept the class entertaining and fun. While it was a brief course and the instructor did well to drop in hints about using R and tidbits about the coding language, I wish there could have been more about the R language itself. Nevertheless, would very much recommend this introductory course.
Date Attended: March 15, 2018, 1:29 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2018, 5:47 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2018, 5:47 p.m.
Anonymous: Thank you for offering this class.
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2018, 1:14 p.m.
Pongpat V:
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:31 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2018, 10:03 a.m.
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2018, 10:03 a.m.
Anonymous: Brian Healy is a talented, enthusiastic instructor. He presents the material clearly and effectively. He is great with answering questions and uses fantastic examples. The best way this course could be improved would be if the students shared some of Brian's enthusiasm. He is very engaging and energetic!
Date Reviewed: March 26, 2018, 8:31 a.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 23, 2018, 11:02 a.m.
Anonymous: Excellent course. Dr. Healy is an outstanding instructor. His excitement about statistics was contagious and the class was fun, in addition to being very useful - I trekked through a snow storm to get to class. A great introduction to R and a fantastic overview of statistical analyses that can be done with many different types of clinical trial datasets.
Date Reviewed: March 23, 2018, 10:19 a.m.
Anonymous: Excellent course, Dr. Healy is a great and inspiring instructor! Would gladly take more of stats courses organized in MGH.
Date Reviewed: March 23, 2018, 9:45 a.m.
Solomon K: Dr Healy is such a great instructor, he has managed to make Biostat accessible and engaging, especially since I haven't taken a stats course in a long while. The course content was well thought out, concise and practically applicable for my work in the lab. Thanks and would take more courses if they were offered.
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 11:43 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 11:43 p.m.
Sietske S: Excellent introduction - good selection of topics, some background (and suggested reading) and some hands-on statistics with real-life examples. I wish there were more sessions!
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:17 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 9:27 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 9:27 p.m.
Shawna B: Excellent instructor who is clear & syccint. The slides ahead of time is a great touch. Giving us a practicum to do on our own is very useful.
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:21 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 5:44 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 5:44 p.m.
Anonymous: Great sessions!. Good overview of clinical stats and use of R. I am glad that the slides are posted, as well as R commands and data sheets.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 5:39 p.m.
Anonymous: Outstanding instructor that makes stats fun , super relevant and something to look for to learn and apply ! Can’t say thank you enough !
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 4:53 p.m.
Natalie D:
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:25 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 4:42 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 4:42 p.m.
Samia B: Very well taught and easy to follow. I took a biostatistics course over the course of a year and these four sessions did a wonderful and clear job of giving a good summary and refreshment of those topics
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:35 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 4:15 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 4:15 p.m.
Laura D: Useful selection of topics covered in an extremely clear, didactic manner. I would gladly attend more sessions if they were offered.
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:55 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:55 p.m.
Michael S:
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:29 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:50 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:50 p.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:35 p.m.
Anonymous: Dr. Healy was fantastic! Thank you!
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:21 p.m.
Chunxia X: Fantastic instructor! Useful classes! Thank you.
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:25 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:20 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:20 p.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:20 p.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:15 p.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:08 p.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 3:05 p.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 2:52 p.m.
Jessica S:
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:29 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 2:44 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 2:44 p.m.
Paula V: Fantastic!
Date Attended: March 15, 2018, 1:29 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 2:44 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 2:44 p.m.
Chayanin N:
Date Attended: March 22, 2018, 1:44 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 2:38 p.m.
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 2:38 p.m.
Anonymous:
Date Reviewed: March 22, 2018, 2:14 p.m.