About

Instructors

Meike Niederhausen

• Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health
• Faculty Biostatistician for OHSU’s Biostatistics & Design Program
• Affiliate Investigator for the HSR&D Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) at the Portland VA

Jessica Minnier

• Associate Professor of Biostatistics
• Faculty Biostatistician in the Biostatistics Shared Resource of OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute.
• jessicaminnier.com

Course info

This webpage was created for BSTA 526 (R Programming for Health Data Science) in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.

Acknowledgements

BSTA 526 class materials

• BSTA 526 was taught in previous years as BSTA 504 by Ted Laderas (2021) and Jessica Minnier (2022, 2023).
• Almost all course materials were created by Ted and Jessica with minor changes for BSTA 526 (such as updating from RMarkdown to Quarto). Their work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. See previous class websites linked to above for links to their source code on GitHub.

In 2024, Meike Niederhausen and Emile Latour taught the first BSTA 526 using these materials, https://niederhausen.github.io/BSTA_526_W24/

Quarto webpage

• Thank you to Nicky Wakim for creating her amazing webpage for BSTA 550, and sharing her code on GitHub. Having her template made creating this website a much smoother process.
• Thank you also to Andrew Bray for presenting the From R Markdown to Quarto ASA Travelling Workshop to the Oregon Chapter of the ASA in June 2023. This workshop was a great starting point in making the switch from RMarkdown to Quarto and also create Quarto webpages.