This page contains materials by David Benkeser and Julia Wrobel for the short course titled “Hitchhikers Guide to Reproducible Research”, developed for the 2024 Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infections Diseases (SISMID).

Lecture material is available via the navigation bar above. Each section has its own devoted web page. These pages include downloadable slides and in some cases, practice exercises and solutions.

Prior to starting the lecture material, students should download and install certain software packages. Please see the software installations page for more details.

Students enrolling in this course are expected to have some familiarity with R and R Markdown. Students who are unfamiliar with these areas can brush up using the pre-read material.