First data science project completed for Statistical Methods I. County Health Rankings 2022 (CHR-2022) data was used to analyze factors impacting mental health in five Great Lakes states.
Skills Demonstrated:
- Cleaning/ handling data and describing study design used to collect data
- Descriptive and exploratory summaries of data across groups for each outcome
- Developing appropriate research questions, identifying smart measures for predictors and outcomes, developing a prediction model using linear regression
- Visualizing and modeling relationship between quantitative outcome and quantitative predictor
- Visualizing and modeling relationship between quantitative outcome and categorical predictor
- Visualizing and modeling relationships between quantitative outcome and quantitative predictor, adjusting for geographic location
- Regression-based comparisons of mean differences for quantitative outcome across two or more groups
- Regression-based predictions of a quantitative outcome using a quantitative predictor