Working with Data in Public Health: A Practical Pathway with R

Dr. Peng Zhao is an Assistant Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He got a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from Peking University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Bayreuth. He used to work as a post-doc at the University of Innsbruck and the Max Planck Institute. He is the module leader of the undergraduate modules "Methods for Analysing Public Health IV: Working in the Field: Data" and "Statistics for Environmental Scientists". He published the books "Learning R: From the Very beginning" in 2018 and "Modern Statistical Graphs" in 2021 as the first author of both.

• Part I. Collecting data.- Research design.- Sampling data.- Part II. Processing data.- Cleaning data.- Data types.- Part III. Analyzing data.- Statistics.- Hypothesis testing.- Model.- R packages in public health.- Part IV. Visualizing data.- Basic graphs.- Advanced plotting packages.- Interactive graphs.- Part V. Presenting data.- Data reports.- poster and slides.- Manuscript and Thesis.- Part VI. Managing data.- Project management.- Appendix.