From the course: Designing Big Data Healthcare Studies, Part One

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Preparation for part two

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From the course: Designing Big Data Healthcare Studies, Part One

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Preparation for part two

- [Instructor] Welcome to the very last video in this first course in this two-course series about designing big data healthcare studies. In this video, I'll give you a preview of what you'll learn in the next course, part two. In this course, we started by thinking about how to create a hypothesis that would work for secondary data analysis. We had to make sure we specified our subpopulation, exposure, outcome, and our confounders. Then we went shopping for a source data set that met those specifications and selected them. Finally, we operationalized the native variables in the source data set we needed into a data dictionary, essentially designing our analytic file that we will use for our eventual regression analysis to answer our hypothesis. That's what we got done in this course. Now, let's look at what's next in part two. In part two, you finally get to start using your statistical software. Using the data dictionary and other documents as a guide, you will create your analytic…

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