MF9130E - Introductory course in Statistics


Welcome!

You are on the course website for MF9130E - Introductory Course in Statistics at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.

  • The course is intended for students and researchers who are interested in statistics and R programming, with applications in medical and healthcare data. No previous programming experience is required to participate in this course.
  • This website is developed by the instructors of the course, hosted for free and public access on Github. The course github repository can be accessed here.
  • You can check the course page by UiO for information related to applications, evaluations and other administrative matters.
  • About home exam: information regarding home exam will be talked about in the class on the first and last days. Assignment tasks for home exam will be put in Canvas, and you should submit your assignment in Inspera. More information about the exam

Preparation

You should have a working solution of R and RStudio (either installed on your own laptop, or using Posit cloud) before the course.

Please also familiarize yourself with the course website.

  • Get Started provides some information about software installation, where to download data and code, and some resources.
  • Schedule provides an overview of the planned sessions, and links to course material used in each session.
  • R Lab and Code hosts the lab session notes collectively.

Schedule and course material

On Schedule page, you will see a list of topics and links to the material. This should be consistent with the official UiO schedule provided by University of Oslo.

If there is an error in the time and place on this page, please refer to the official schedule.

Note

We will primarily use this website (instead of Canvas) for hosting material and exercises. Please let us know if you have issue accessing data files or content!