Welcome to Dr Simon Thornley’s digital droplet

Thanks for visiting!

This is my shiny server, where I host a bunch of web apps.

POPLHLTH 304: Principles of applied epidemiology

I teach in the University of Auckland’s undergraduate Bachelor of Health Science.

I teach stage 3 university students to learn R skills through interactive tutorials.

Some of these tutorials are found on links below:

• Tutorial 2: Getting started with R.
• Tutorial 3: Getting started with posit.
• Tutorial 4: Statistical testing.
• Tutorial 5: Linear regression.
• Tutorial 6: Count regression.
• Tutorial 8: Logistic regression.

POPLHLTH 216: Quantitative methods for health

This course is a stage 2 introductory course related to the analysis of quantitative software, with the fantastic iNZight lite software.

• Tutorial 1: Getting started
• Tutorial 2: Exploring inferential statistics
• Tutorial 3: Analysing a case-control study
• Tutorial 4: Adjusting for confounding and regression
• Tutorial 5: Further exploration of regression
• Tutorial 6: Examination preparation

Other epidemiology-related apps and websites

• Calculate and visualise relative risks and odds ratios
• Analyse food outbreak data
• My epidemiology glossary
• Visualise a count regression example
• Visualise a logistic regression example
• Dice simulation of an epidemiological study
• Regression and principal components
• Bayes’ diagnostic test aid with Fagan’s nomogram
• Calculator for in-hospital interpretation of D-dimer test with Fagan’s nomogram
• Bayes’ diagnostic test aid with Euler plot
• My github page

Teaching datasets I use…

• Korean Health Survey (cut down sample; POPLHLTH 216: tutorials 1 and 2)
• Cot death case control study; POPLHLTH 216: tutorials 3 and 4

Some of my talks

My interview with Jack Tame on Q&A which aired on TVNZ (September 6, 2020).