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

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Structure of descriptive table: Table 1

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Structure of descriptive table: Table 1

- [Instructor] Next, we will cover the structure of table one, our descriptive table. The purpose of placing table one at the beginning of the manuscript is that it describes your subpopulation. Or put in another way, it describes your analytic data set. It lets the readers, and also you, the analyst, understand the nature of your data set before you move on to doing regression analysis. The main feature of this table is that it stratifies the prevalence of the outcome by levels of the confounders, you are contemplating including in the regression model. But don't worry, you aren't showing up or dissing your regression model by showing a descriptive table. It only includes a bivariate, not a multivariate analysis, and does not control for confounders. Okay, let's look over on the right side of the slide. Here is a diagram of the structure. You'll notice I use D+ and D- to mean our outcome generically, like the notation we used in the two-by-two table in the previous course. And on the…

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