Key Info and Announcements

Modified

February 24, 2025

Announcements

  • SPH Annual conference!
    • https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/publichealthpdx/
    • Submit a poster abstract!
    • You will already have a poster ready to go at the end of this class!
    • Major benefits
      • Get practice discussing your work with others
      • Put it on your resume!
      • Free food!
      • Learn from other faculty and students!
      • Get conference experience at a low stake and FREE event

Homeworks

  • In your interpretations, please make it as easy as possible for your audience
    • For example: “-0.3 lower” Is that 0.3 lower? or 0.3 higher?
      • Stick to the magnitude and use lower or higher to indicate the sign!
  • If the question asks for a population model, there should be NO hats!
  • HW3, question 3
    • Part b
      • Asked for population (not estimated) model
    • Part g
      • Age OR fitted values can be on the x-axis
      • Residuals must be on the y-axis
    • Part q
      • I would use the log-transformation
      • The qq-plot looks much better! The residual plot looks better! The linearity looks better
        • All three of these are closer to the ideal look

Labs

  • Look at your html before turning it in!!
    • Do not print an entire dataset! You shouldn’t need to scroll through 100,000’s of rows of data!
  • If you are working with gender identity, multi-selection race, or BMI
    • Please make sure you are using these variables correctly.
      • Ideally, come to office hours and make sure you have the variables correct
      • Points will be taken off your final project if these variables are incorrect
  • Make sure your factored variables are correct!
    • We should NOT see numbers on plots if the variable is categorical
  • Make sure you selected variables before using drop_NA()
  • Reminder on late work policy
    • Late labs are NOT the same as late homework
    • You have one no-questions-asked extensions for labs
    • If your lab is late without an approved extension, then 2 points will be taken off

Key Dates

  • HW 4 due 2/28
  • Lab 4 due 3/7
  • HW 5 due 3/14
  • Project poster due 3/17