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Senior Research Associate Publishes Text on Biostatistics
Thomas W. MacFarland, Ed.D., senior research associate (Office of Institutional Effectiveness) and associate professor (Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences), recently published a text on biostatistics using the R programming language (2014; Introduction to Data Analysis and Graphical Presentation in Biostatistics with R; New York: Springer). Selected readings are available at Springer’s Web site: http://www.springer.com/statistics/life+sciences,+medicine+%26+health/book/978-3-319-02531-5.
Through real-world datasets, this book shows the reader how to work with material in biostatistics using the open source software R. These include tools that are critical to dealing with missing data. Readers will be equipped to run analyses and make graphical presentations based on sample datasets (posted at the publisher’s Web site) and their own data.