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• Guidelines for Presentations
• Presenting Statistics
• Getting Started in R

A good presentation is very rewarding and usually raises the presenters profile. This document aims to provide guidelines on how to create good presentations.

This presentation was originally given at the "New Statisticians in Drug Development" (a PSI meeting held on 18th March 2003). It was motivated by the Presentation Skills for Statisticians course that we offer.

"Pharmaceutical statisticians are frequently faced with situations in which they must present their work. This talk aims to highlight some of the issues leading to misinterpretation of statistics and how to avoid them."

This "Getting Started in R" is aimed at absolute beginners in R with some basic statistical understanding. The idea is to read and follow the examples by typing them in an interactive R session. There are some exercises along the way to aid learning but I would recommend that the user experiment with commands by, for example, trying different options to those stated. This experimentation is an important part of learning R using this manual. It is hands-on approach to learning R.

If you would like some further reading or information, the R website has an up to date list of references.

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