Wearable Device Data
Modified

April 24, 2025

Course information

We will be working with the NHANES dataset curated by the textbook, Functional Data Analysis with R.

Schedule

Week Date Location Topic Reading Activity
1 4/3 @4pm VPT 615B Intro
  • Best practices for analyzing large-scale health data from wearables and smartphone apps
2 4/11 @1pm Virtual Research Questions
  • Functional Data Analysis with R, Section 1.2.1
  • Use R to explore NHANES data

  • Reproduce Figure 1.1

3 4/17 @4pm VPT 615B Prepare Data
  • acc: An R package to process, visualize, and analyze accelerometer data
  • Accelerometer Data Collection and Processing Criteria to Assess Physical Activity and Other Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Practical Considerations
  • Use some of the functions in acc to simulate and explore accelerometer data
4 4/24 @4pm Virtual Prepare Data: Missing data
  • A framework for handling missing accelerometer outcome data in trials
  • Lecture from BSTA 513
  • TBD
5 5/1 @4pm Virtual Analyze Data
  • A Review of Statistical Analyses on Physical Activity Data Collected from Accelerometers
  • TBD: maybe nothing, maybe performing a similar summary
6 No class this week Analyze Data 1: Cross-sectional studies
  • The associations of physical activity patterns and the triglyceride-glucose index in US adults: a secondary data analysis of NHANES (2007–2018)
7 5/15 @4pm VPT 615B Analyze Data 2: Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • Association of Longitudinal Activity Measures and Diabetes Risk: An Analysis From the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program
8 5/22 @4pm Virtual Analyze Data 3: Functional Data Analysis
  • Youtube Video on Intro to Functional Data Analysis (~23 min)

  • Functional Data Analysis with R, Section 4.0-4.1

  • Work through the R code for Section 4.0-4.1
9 5/29 @4pm VPT 615B Analyze Data 3: Functional Data Analysis
  • Functional Data Analysis with R, Section 4.2-4.3
  • Work through the R code for Section 4.2-4.3
10 6/5 @4pm Virtual Share Results
  • TBD
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