Descriptive Healthcare Analytics in R

Contents

• Introduction Introduction

  • Welcome

    46s
  • What you should know

    31s
  • Introduction to the course

    1m 22s
  • How to use the exercise files

    39s
• 1. What Is the BRFSS? 1. What Is the BRFSS?

  • US risk factors

    5m 30s
  • Introduction to the BRFSS

    2m 46s
  • More on the BRFSS

    1m 50s
  • What is a descriptive BRFSS analysis?

    4m 57s
  • Cross-sectional analysis in the BRFSS

    3m 52s
  • Ethical use of BRFSS data

    4m 38s
  • BRFSS resources

    2m 25s
  • Choosing R for a BRFSS analysis: Some considerations

    3m 51s
  • Choosing R for a BRFSS analysis: More considerations

    4m 14s
  • Installing R

    1m 50s
  • Navigating in R

    2m 37s
  • Installing the foreign package

    3m 8s
  • Installing necessary packages

    3m 58s
• 2. Designing Your Metadata 2. Designing Your Metadata

  • Uses of a data dictionary

    4m 35s
  • How to set up a data dictionary

    3m 48s
  • Adding to the data dictionary

    6m 13s
  • Understanding confounders

    4m 24s
  • Making a web of causation

    6m 28s
  • Designing confounders: Age and smoking

    4m 42s
  • Designing confounders: Other demographics

    4m 19s
  • Designing confounders: Other variables used in analysis

    4m 39s
• 3. Reading in Data and Applying Exclusions 3. Reading in Data and Applying Exclusions

  • Reading in BRFSS XPT data

    6m 57s
  • Naming conventions

    5m 38s
  • Keeping native variables

    5m 15s
  • Applying the first exclusion

    6m 3s
  • Applying the rest of the exclusions

    4m 57s
  • Operations in code

    3m 52s
  • Making a data reduction diagram

    4m 35s
  • Generating exposure

    4m 43s
  • Generating outcome variables

    3m 32s
• 4. Preparing for Descriptive Analysis 4. Preparing for Descriptive Analysis

  • Generating the age variables

    4m 18s
  • Generating the smoking variables

    4m 36s
  • Finalizing the analytic data set

    5m 46s
  • What is Table 1?

    4m 26s
  • Reviewing categorical variable distribution

    6m 15s
  • Reviewing continuous variable distribution

    6m 29s
• 5. Conducting Descriptive Analysis 5. Conducting Descriptive Analysis

  • Preparing categorical Table 1 shell

    6m 10s
  • Preparing continuous Table 1 shell

    2m 46s
  • Adding overall frequencies to categorical Table 1

    4m 59s
  • Making a frequency macro

    4m 8s
  • Adding overall frequencies to continuous Table 1

    3m 4s
  • Completing categorical Table 1

    7m 7s
  • Completing continuous Table 1

    5m 47s
• 6. Descriptive Analysis: Weights and Tests 6. Descriptive Analysis: Weights and Tests

  • Three truths about using weights

    4m 58s
  • Conducting a descriptive weighted analysis

    7m 50s
  • Why conduct bivariate tests?

    5m 8s
  • Adding categorical bivariate tests to Table 1

    7m 17s
  • Introduction to ANOVA and linear regression code

    2m 43s
  • Adding continuous bivariate tests to Table 1

    7m 25s
• Conclusion Conclusion

  • Review of the metadata

    6m 11s
  • Uses of metadata

    5m 26s
  • Review of the process

    3m 39s
  • Next steps in the BRFSS analysis

    5m 41s