Research paper

Instructions:

Describe the dataset you will use for your paper, what outcomes and exposures you want to look at specifically description of:

1.Planned paper topic and data set to be used for project and

2. Structured argument justifying paper topic with citations:
Briefly describe what you found online about the
•             Study participants (eligibility, recruitment, participation rate, consent)
•             Data collection procedures
•             Data management procedures
• Ethical considerations

3. Choose an outcome, a key exposure, to propose a hypothesis for why you think the outcome would be related to the exposure and in what direction, and what other variables to consider impacting the relationship with exposure and outcome.

4. Describe how your outcome and exposure variables are coded, their frequency (unweighted) and what recode, if any, you might make.

5.Based on the frequencies in the code book, what are your outcome and primary exposure(s)?  Do these variables have (1) sufficient variation for analysis, (2) any small cells, and (3) will you recode the variables?  If so, how?

Please see the rubric below to help organize your thinking and research plan.

It would help moving forward to make much more explicit your:
1) outcome of interest
2) exposure of interest

Generally, it would be best for you to work with one outcome and one exposure. If you do one exposure and two outcomes or two exposures and one outcome then you would need to do two sets of analyses. You are welcome but not required to do this double amount of work. Similarly, if you did two exposures and two outcomes you would have to do four analyses; I strongly discourage this as it would be too much work proportional to the time available in this class.

3) your hypothesized relationship between your exposure and outcome (with directionality)

4) specify several key covariates and a clear reason why each should be examined as covariates

5) your denominator for your outcome and the numerator for your outcome

6) the numerator and denominator of the exposure (either yes/no or distribution if not dichotomous)

7) specify the population this numerator and denominator of exposure and outcome apply to

Remember that your document must adhere to the following guidelines:

• Use Microsoft Word
• Double-space
• Paginate
• Include your name on each page either in the header or footer
• Use 12-point font
• Use 1-inch margins
• Use EndNote for references
• Include Table(s) in the manuscript Word document after bibliography or as separate Excel or PDF file(s)
• Include data cleaning and statistical analysis syntax (SAS syntax, well-organized and labeled) after Tables at the end of the manuscript as an Appendix or as a separate file
• The manuscript should be formatted for a specific journal where the manuscript could theoretically be submitted
o If no preferred journal is identified, format for AJPH (https://ajph.aphapublications.org/authorinstructions)
o You do not need to include extra-manuscript components such as highlights, funding, acknowledgements, or conflicts of interest
o You may include an abstract if you choose to
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