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

This book provides a complete practical guide of processing data in public health with R language. On the basis of the author's research and teaching experiences, this book serves either as a textbook for undergraduates and graduates in public health or as a tutorial for self-learning. Many first-hand examples are presented with source data, R scripts, and graphs, as well as detailed explanations, which could be easily reproduced by readers so as to better understand the data processing principles and procedures. Popular and novel R packages in public health are introduced as well.

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.