Lecture Materials for Week 4
September 9, 2024
Warm-up Activity (wrangling and plotting)
Please click here to begin the activity
Resources
The Epidemiologist R Handbook was mentioned in the slide deck — this is a helpful online handbook for learning to use R.
If you need help while completing the warm-up, check out these awesome Posit Cheatsheets:
dplyr cheatsheet for data wrangling
tidyr cheatsheet for tidying data (including pivoting)
ggplot2 cheatsheet for graphing
Introduction to Probability
Slides for lecture
Resources
Click here to access the paper by Shu and colleagues (2017) that made use of the data we explored in this week’s lecture.
Click here to access Bayes Rules by Drs. Alicia A. Johnson, Miles Q. Ott, Mine Dogucu that presents the fake news example that we considered in this lecture.
Outro
We’ll do this webR tutorial on Bayes’ Theorem and False Positives in class if we have time — otherwise, it will be a great study activity for the upcoming exam.