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title: "UBEP R-Tidyverse Course to ECDC"

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image-alt: "UBEP: Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health - University of Padova (ITALY)"
image-title: "UBEP: Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Public Health - University of Padova (ITALY)"

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**Framework contract:** ECDC/2023/027 "Biostatistics Services" -- RS/2023/PHF/25462

## Objectives

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The main objective of the present request for services is to [**provide an online R course**]{.underline} (duration of 2 days, delivered in 4 different half days) for 3 different groups of 10 participants in 3 different time slots, targeting the supervisors of [EPIET/EUPHEM](https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/epiet-euphem) and [MediPIET](https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/training-and-tools/training-programmes/fellowships/medipiet) fellows. The training course is expected [**to cover an introduction to R for data management, analysis and visualization**]{.underline}.
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## Course content

This course will provide an introduction to R using public health examples, covering the following topics:

-   About R and R basics, using RStudio projects, and tips for file organization
-   Importing data, including with the `{here}` and `{rio}` R packages
-   Data exploration and tidy data formats
-   Cleaning data with `{tidyverse}` R functions
-   Making descriptive tables with the `{janitor}`, `{flextable}`, `{dplyr}`, and `{gtsummary}` R packages, including basic statistics
-   Basics of data visualization with `{ggplot2}`, including epidemic curves
-   The basics of R Markdown

## Time frame

The time frame for this project is estimated at 6 months. The final deliverable shall be delivered no later than 31^st^ March 2024.