About

Instructor

Meike Niederhausen

• Associate 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

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 BSTA 526 using these materials, https://niederhausen.github.io/BSTA_526_W24/.
• In 2025, Meike and Jessica taught BSTA 526 using these materials, https://niederhausen.github.io/BSTA_526_W25/.

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.