PUBH 6052 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Filename Extension, Dont, Survival Skills
9 Feb 2017
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Don"t wait until the last minute to determine how easily you will get through the material. Know that you are going to get through the course. Feel free to reach out for help: for our purposes, health-related information could include health outcomes, use of health services, risk factors relating to a disease or. Dataset: collection of information organized into a grid. Hospital it systems for managing service delivery. 1. 4 life course of a data analysis project. Two key principles: clarity and transparency: clarity: anyone should be able to know what everything in your dataset represents, transparency: anyone should be able to know where everything in the dataset came from. Everyone needs to be able to understand the data. Personnel come and go while projects continue. Within the dataset: give variables meaningful names, give each variable a label, use value labels. Outside the dataset: have a codebook that contains the same information.
