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This is the highlight assignment of Biostat 212!  We want you to be able to take data and turn it into a publishable product.  This will require understanding the data, developing a research question, importing the data into Stata, generating derived variables that you will use for your analysis, labeling your variables, doing the analysis, saving and documenting your analysis, and producing a table and figure that readers can understand.  In keeping with the spirit of TICR, we hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to analyze your own data, and produce a table and figure that you can use in a manuscript.

Create a publication quality table and figure:

 1.     Create a table, formatted as required for submission to an appropriate journal, complete with title, headings, data, and footnotes (including spelled-out versions of all abbreviations and other notes as needed to clarify meaning or methodology).  You can create the table using MarkDoc with the tbl command or use tabout to generate LaTeX code or export directly into a word document.  Alternatively, you can generate the data for the table in Stata, then copy & paste into your final project. Remember to include your commands.

2.     Create a figure of quality suitable for submission to a journal.  This should be produced within Stata. The figure should have a legend, title and a note. The reader should be able to easily understand the figure without any outside information.  

Turn in:

         1.     A PDF, html or DocX with both your commands, the table and the figure.

         2.     Your .do file

·       [+10] Extra credit point for using MarkDoc and/or OverLeaf/TeX to create your PDF or table

·       An example final project is posted on the course website

Note – If you do not have access to your own data, please ask for some from your mentor.  If your mentor does not have any data you can look for publically available datasets.

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