Please copy and paste all the SAS code, log, and output, fill out the table.
About the project: the objective is to determine whether there is any difference between students who took this course this semester online compared to in-class.
- EXCEL datasets EPI626 Online and EPI626 InClass contains selected data collected from students enrolled in this course. Please use the data to fill out the table below.
- Table to be filled out*:
- General Grading of Final Assignment (required steps).
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Student Characteristics |
All |
Online |
In Class |
p-value |
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N = () |
N = () |
N = () |
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Age |
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Gender |
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Female |
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Male |
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Degree program |
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MPH |
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MSPH |
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Other |
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Number of Languages |
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1 |
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2 |
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3 or more |
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Hold Breath for 45 seconds or longer |
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Yes |
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No |
*For continuous variables, report Mean (SD) or Median (IQR) as appropriate and specify which one you are reporting in the table.For categorical variables, report n and % of total N for each column (All, Online, In Class at top of table)
- Import data sets
- If you use Import Wizard, please be sure to request and save relevant SAS program
- Do NOT modify data in excel sheets by hand prior to import!
- Combine data sets
- Make sure that in the combined data set, there is a variable which allows you to classify a student as enrolled in the online vs in class course.
- Preparing and cleaning combined data set
- Please check variable names (and types!)
- Please use Dec 31 of this year as the reference date for age calculations for each respective group.
- Saving the cleaned data set as a permanent data set
- Please exclude anyone from the final cleaned data set if the person has a missing value for one or more of the final variables.
- Producing descriptive statistics (cover all characteristic)
- Producing p-values (cover all characteristic)
- Final report. The final report should address the following:
- Describe the process you went through to clean/recode the data. Essentially, your report should allow someone else to replicate your work, based on information provided in the report, and come to the same findings/conclusions.
- For each variable:
- How many observations have missing values
- How many observations have implausible values (e.g., age of 101)
- How many observations have inconsistencies to record the same value (e.g., f and F for female)
- What did you do to handle the above situations and why?
- What is the impact of the approaches you used to clean the data (e.g., observation excluded from analysis)?
- What are the attributes of the cleaned data set that you saved permanently?
- How many total included observations?
- Number of observations having missing values for one or more variables
- Distribution of each variable
- What procedures did you use to obtain the descriptive statistics and the p-values?
- Why?
- For each variable:
- Describe the process you went through to clean/recode the data. Essentially, your report should allow someone else to replicate your work, based on information provided in the report, and come to the same findings/conclusions.
Jermaine Byrant
Nicole Johnson
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