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Sets of MCQ's for each chapter below. For those wishing to intergrat them into Electronic Learning Environments (Moodle etc) please contact the author.

 

chapter Title Multiple choice questions
   
1
How this book works
 
2
Statistics and R - Setting the scene
 
3
R - What is it?  Two ways to use it
 
4
Downloading and installing the R software - free!
 
5 Starting R              
6
R Commander the graphical front end to R
 
7 Packages: the apps          
8 A quick tutorial: Analysing data shipped with R    
9
A quick  introduction to the R language
 
Basic Statistical techniques  
11 Summary statistics           
12 Graphing Distributions of single variables: histograms and density plots  
13 Densityplots for subgroups defined by factor levels  
14 Boxplots               
15
Percentages for each category/factor level
 
Samples and Populations  
17 Comparing a sample mean to a population mean - Single sample t test   
18 Comparing pre-post test means - Paired samples t test  
19 Comparing 2 sample means - independent samples t test             
20 Comparing pre-post test median difference - Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Statistic    
21 Comparing 2 distributions - Mann Whitney U       
22 Comparing an observed proportion to a population value - The Binomial test       
23 Several independent proportions compared with the average: two way tables   
24 Comparing several independent categories: Contingency tables                 
25
Measuring the degree to which two variables co-vary: Correlation
 
26 Measuring the influence of one variable on another: Regression                

Health Statistics               

 
28
Risk and Odds ratios
 
29 Number needed to treat/harm  
30
Sensitivity, Specificity and predictive values
 
31 Levels of agreement - Kappa, Krippendorff and the ICC  
32
Bland - Altman plots
 
33
Meta-analysis: the basics
 
34 Plotting survival over time: KM (Kaplan-Meier) plots        
35 Investigating effects upon survival over time: Cox PH regression                
36 Graphical summaries of data       
37 Paired nominal data: comparing proportions using McNemar's test           

Managing your data and R          

 
39
Creating datasets and distributions in R Commander and R
 
40
Importing your data into R
 
41
Cutting and Pasting from Excel/Word to the R Data editor  
 
42 Saving and exporting your work and data  
43 R Script files (.r)  
44 Manipulating variables (columns) in R Commander and R               
45 Manipulating cases (rows) in R Commander and R        
46 Expanding tables of counts into flat files                 
47 Installing non-CRANS packages   
48 Workspaces, objects and history files    
49 Developing R Code – Rstudio and NppToR             

More ways of analysing your data

 
51
Mosaic and extended association plots
 
52 Multiway tables and Crosstabs   
53 Re-sampling – Permutations, Jackknifes and Bootstrap’s                
54 Repeated measures: Mixed models and Gee      
55
Sample size requirements      
 
56 Confidence intervals for effect sizes - Noncentral distributions  
57 Publication quality graphics          

More Regression Techniques

 
59
Multiple Linear Regression: Measuring the influence of several variables on one continuous variable
 
60 Logistic regression: a binary outcome    
61 Poisson (Log linear) Regression  
62 Conditional Logistic Regression   
63
Factorial ANOVA
 
64 Factor Analysis   
65 Structural Equation Modelling (SEM)        
66 Résumé