Week 11
Attention Research Interns! Week 11 has officially started and we have passed half the time for data collection alongside learning Data Analysis learning!
Daily Focus:
· Complete Data Collection: Continue with your data collection efforts with speed to ensure you reach your target sample size by the end of this phase. Consistency is key!
· Workshops on STATA: By now interns should have installed STATA from previous week guidelines, and be familiar with do file, working directory and STATA interface. Now we will start learning analysis from this week onwards.
Schedule for Week 11
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Monday |
Watch the second STATA workshop video as a group Continue with your data collection. |
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Tuesday, Wednesday |
Re-watch the video individually and Practice on the provided datasets from the workshop resources Continue your data collection process. |
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Thursday |
Attend a live tutorial to address any queries Complete your STATA assignment Continue your data collection process. |
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Friday |
Attempt the Quiz Continue your data collection process. |
Weekend Activities
Tutorials, Assignments
To get the most out of tutorials, active participation is the key! Please make sure to log in with a computer rather than a mobile device, as this often makes it easier to engage with shared screens and interactive elements. Come prepared for practicing. Complete the recording, STATA should have already been installed, start practicing on it, then u will have queries and will be able to avail the tutorial best. Also please share queries before the tutorial so that instructors plan their time and are best prepared to answer that.
Coordinate with your group. Reach out to HR person in case of any coordination difficulties with mentor (admin@bmyhealth.com).
" We know that learning STATA can feel overwhelming at first... but remember, this journey is not about perfection, it’s about progress. That’s why we are here with dedicated tutorials: to build your confidence, remove hesitation, and guide you in applying STATA correctly.
We invite alumni in these activities so you can see successful examples of this learning process and draw inspiration and motivation from their journey. Some of them are also learning mentoring through this process. Feel free to share constructive feedback in a positive way to help one another grow. We'd love to see many of you take this path with us and one day mentor the next generation of researchers!
Keep showing up, keep trying, and remember: every expert was once a beginner.
Best wishes to all! "
STATA Workshop
Facilitator: Dr. Owais Raza, BMY Health Canada
Session 2: Exploring Data in STATA, Data Visualization, Hypothesis Testing
SESSION 2 recording:
Tips of learning through recording: Completely watch the recording once and then re-watch to practice. Please focus on learning steps of basic analysis first, and write codes of analysis relevant in your project in a separate file for more focused learning. Start practicing on given datasets, starting with basic analysis such as calculating mean, SD, and then learning more details of different charts and hypothesis testing.
Assignment:
- Fetch dataset from this url:
- https://www.stata-press.com/data/r17/nhanes2.dta
- Cross tabulate region and high blood pressure status with row percentages, repeat this analysis for PSU 2
- Statistically test skewness and kurtosis for tcresult, tgresult & hdresult. Repeat this analysis for diabetic and non-diabetic individuals
- Create a scatterplot matrix and fit linear regression for tcresult, tgresult & hdresult
More Learning Resources
Read Concepts in Biostatistics
(Learning Biostatistics is optional but recommended for those who are unfamiliar to basic terms such as descriptive analysis, inferential analysis, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing etc.)