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