The Effective Statistician From SAS to R Course

The Effective Statistician From SAS to R Course

Are you worried about becoming irrelevant with focusing on SAS only?

Do you want to become a part of the fast-growing R community, but you don’t know how to best start?

Do you see others being successful with using R and you would like to have the same opportunities?

You’re definitively not alone.

Thousands of statisticians, data scientists and statistical analysts have focused on SAS only and now they see this big shift in the healthcare industry towards R.

The Effective Statistician From SAS to R Course provides you with the optimal path to transition easily via a proven concept to this new world of R.

Thomas Neitmann has helped hundreds of your peers to take this step and now offers his expertise for you.

Thomas is an R enthusiast working as a Statistical Programmer with emphasis on R. His R journey began in 2014 when a coworker told him to run an R script to “analyze some data”. Having never programmed before at that time, he was overwhelmed. But he took on the challenge and soon realized the power and joy of programming. Since then, he learned a couple of other programming languages including Matlab, Python, and SAS. But his favorite is still by far R. He also enjoys data visualization a lot too.

Through The Effective Statistician From SAS to R Course you will learn to:

  • Understanding the basics of R Programming including syntax, data types, control structures, and more
  • Applying R to clinical trial data: processing, analysis, and reporting
  • Translating SAS code to R and contrasting the two languages

The course will cover:

  • Fundamentals of the R language
  • Interactive coding in the R console
  • Best practices for setting up and managing R projects
  • Browsing documentation
  • The RStudio IDE
  • Reading and writing datasets
  • Installing and loading packages
  • Creating data manipulation scripts
  • Writing your own R functions
  • Writing scripts
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Statisticial Modelling
  • Creating tables and data visualizations
  • An overview of the R package ecosystem with a focus on clinical trial data processing and reporting
  • Manipulating data using the {tidyverse}
  • Using functions and how to create your own

Click here to get a more detailed overview!

The Effective Statistician From SAS to R Course in detail:

  • 6 120-minutes life zoom sessions (including Q and A and these will be recorded and made available)
    • The dates are as follows:
      - April 12, 10 am to 12 pm (EST)
      - April 26, 11 am to 1 pm (EST)
      - May 3, 10 am to 12 pm (EST)
      - May 17, 9 am to 11 am (EST)
      - May 25, 11 am to 1 pm (EST)
      - June 7, 10 am to 12 pm (EST)
  • Recording of these sessions (live-time access).
  • Access to office hours every other month to get your practical questions answered (these run beyond the course as long as we continue to offer the course (probably some years :-) ).

Invest in yourself and enrol now into The Effective Statistician From SAS to R Course.

If you want to get an invoice with your company details, please write an email to [email protected].


Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course was delivered live already and you have access to all recordings. New live trainings (via zoom) will be done in 2024. Everybody enrolled into this course will have access to these trainings.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.
I need an invoice with my company details. How do I get one?
If you want to get an invoice with your company details, please write an email to [email protected]. Then your company can pay against this invoice.

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