First Assessment: Research Idea, weight: 30%, marked out of 30, due: 14th March, 2019, 5 PM)

Write a research proposal on a topic of your choice; word limit: 1500 words. Word count excludes tables (including words in caption), figures (including words in caption), references. Use APA style referencing. You will learn about APA referencing in the class on library use, otherwise consult the following website 
http://www.library.canterbury.ac.nz/services/ref/apa/
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Second Assessment: data cleaning, weight: 30%, due: 14th April, 2019 5 PM

Read and analyse the data set and write a report on the data analysis (1500 words)
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What shall you include in your paper:

Third Assessment, Research Proposal, 40%, due date: 24th May 2019 5 PM

Write a research proposal as follows:
  1. Write your student ID at the top of the document
  2. Write the title of the research proposal
  3. Write a summary of the proposal
  4. Write an introduction or background section where you will write about the health issue you want to work on and the exposure or the intervention you want to explore. Next, write about gaps in the knowledge that you will investigate. Thus the introduction section will have three subsections (1) what is the issue and what do we know about the issue, (2) what is not known or what needs to be identified about the issue, and (3) what you will investigate. This section will end with a goal and a set of objectives about the research you are about to undertake.
  5. Now write a methods section, where you will (1) write the the type of study design you will employ and explain why you will use this study designs, the advantage and disadvantage of using this study design; (2) the population you will investigate, (3) describe the exposure or the intervention; (4) describe the outcome you want to study; (5) how you will go about collecting data for the study; (6) what analysis you will plan to achieve the results.   
Please note:

List of Data Sets and Challenge Problems

Resources

Critical thinking, book by Gambrill and Gibbs \cite{book:1703804}.
Studies and data sets for the third block
In the second block of this course, we will take a study and analyse the associated data sets. Here are a choice of studies
URL: https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13690-017-0217-5
Description: a study by Mahmud et. al. (2017) where they analysed socio-demographic determinants of locomotor disability among Bangladeshis \cite{Mahmud_2017}
Second Study:
Title: Relationship between employment types and subjective health in Belgium
Description: Van Aerden et al (2017) conducted a cross sectional survey on Belgians about their employment and their subjective health.
URl: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-017-0225-5
LInk to data: https://www.ggp-i.org/data/
Third Study:
Home food environment ...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40795-018-0210-6

Websites, Journal Articles and Books

Free online statistics textbook: Statistics at Square One
UCLA Stata Learning Modules
An Introductory Tutorial in Exploratory for Data Wrangling
An Introductory R Tutorial
RStudio Cheatsheets
STROBE Homepage
OpenEpi Homepage
The Knowledgebase of Social Research Methods
Tidying Data using Stata
Google Spreadsheet for calculation of kappa statistic
Articles
Wickham, H. (2014). Tidy data. Journal of Statistical Software. Full Text Link
Block I:
Harris, A., Reeder, R. N., & Hyun, J. K. (2009). Common statistical and research design problems in manuscripts submitted to high-impact public health journals. … Open Public Health Journal. (Full Text Link)
Ellis, T. J., & Levy, Y. (2008). Framework of problem-based research: A guide for novice researchers on the development of a research-worthy problem. Informing Science: International …. (Full Text Link)
van der Zee T, Anaya J, Brown NJL. (2017) Statistical heartburn: An attempt to digest four pizza publications from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2748v1https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2748v1