Daily: Stream of Consciousness

[ltsippel]

10/25/23

Made this. Started to add links to diop Wiki.

[abigailmondin]

@xorabear Can you please add the code you used to create your graphs to the do file. Thanks!

[ltsippel]

12/14/23

Sophie and I worked at bird through all the comments and reuploaded graphs and tables in the correct format to overleaf. We collectively decided to not use the Alzheimer's data, as we didn't see what new information we got by using it that we do not have from the dementia data already. The plan is to meet everyday until we get this done. @xorabear will make a t-test for dementia and years of education and she will complete the final draft of the lit review(and tag Sophie or I when done, by tomorrow). @sophiehaber is going to add a causal diagram. @ltsippel Will write the conclusion. @abigailmondin will finalize all her graphs that she wants in and work on polishing up the do file and READ.ME.

[kbuzard]

a t-test for dementia and years of education

I'm not sure what a t-test would tell you. I think what you want is a correlation coefficient with a p-value, which you get from the pwcorr command. See Chapter 12, Section 3 of Daniels and Minot (this was our reading for October 11, so you can refer back to the quizprep document and slides for that day).

[xorabear]

12/16/24

I created 2 additional literature reviews which I will edit and finalize. As well as finalizing the literature review and ensuring it has 5 sources. The other day I created 2 graphs for my variables. I uploaded them and will add the code to the do file. I created variable charts for dementia and years of education as well as the pwcorr chart that was recommended by Professor Buzzard. I updated the pwcorr graph to include sig as well

[abigailmondin]

12/16/23

I created the README file on the main page of our repo. I added the a short description, a repository content section, and the steps for accessing the dataset.

[abigailmondin]

12/17/23

I have posted another revised version of the hypothesis/theory section of the final report. This should be seen as the finalized version unless anyone has additional feedback. If no one has any feedback, then @ltsippel or @sophiehaber can add this to the final report in Overleaf.

[xorabear]

12/17/23

I used feedback from professor buzard to edit the info I added with the pwcorr chart. I don't know how to add it to the data section and I added my code to the dofile for the pwcorr chart Ryan opened the files for code to make sure they work

[abigailmondin]

@kbuzard I'm having trouble using Github Desktop. I had this same issue during class and you were able to help me, but I don't remember how you fixed it. It's not allowing me to pull from or push to the web version.

[kbuzard]

@abigailmondin I think what we did was rename your local version of the repo (the folder in Explorer) to something totally unrelated (because we didn't have admin permission to delete the folder), and then we cloned the repo (basically, starting from scratch).

[abigailmondin]

I think what we did was rename your local version of the repo (the folder in Explorer)

@kbuzard I thought we'd done something like that but it isn't allowing me to rename the folder.

[kbuzard]

I think what we did was rename your local version of the repo (the folder in Explorer)

@kbuzard I thought we'd done something like that but it isn't allowing me to rename the folder.

It won't work if you have any files open that are in that folder. You might have to close github desktop too

[abigailmondin]

@kbuzard It worked! Thank you!

[abigailmondin]

@kbuzard In Overleaf, when we insert our figures (charts, graphs, etc.) and click compile, they're showing up in, what seems to me, random places in the pdf. Do you know what the issue could be or how we can make sure the figures are showing up where they're supposed to?

[abigailmondin]

12/17/23

Sophie, Luke, and I met in the library to work together. We created a folder on the main page of our repo for everything that will go into our final submission. We also determined that Sophie will revise the data section, Ixora will write the abstract, I will write the intro, and Luke will write the conclusion. The expectation/goal is that each of these will be done tonight.

I added the README, the reduced variables dataset, and the do file to the final submission folder that we created.

[abigailmondin]

12/17/23

I wrote the introduction for the final report, this can be found under the linked issue and has been inserted into the Overleaf document

[xorabear]

12/18/23

I drafted the abstract and requested feedback from @kbuzard as others aren't giving me feedback due to availability and I'm waiting for the final results because I was supposed to revise it but it's not completed as of now or fully uploaded

[ltsippel]

12/18/23

I wrote the conclusion for the final report. If anyone needs any help feel free to reach out.

[abigailmondin]

12/18/23

I revised the introduction to include why we chose the 2016 RAND HRS dataset and why we used the year 2016. I also adjusted the bullet points at the end to be a paragraph. I updated the Overleaf document to reflect these changes.

[ltsippel]

12/18/23

@xorabear @sophiehaber @abigailmondin First of all I know some of you still have exams good luck on those tonight. I updated the documentation plan on discussions in our repo to add little notes and say when things actually got done.

[abigailmondin]

@kbuzard In Overleaf, when we insert our figures (charts, graphs, etc.) and click compile, they're showing up in, what seems to me, random places in the pdf. Do you know what the issue could be or how we can make sure the figures are showing up where they're supposed to?

@kbuzard We're still having this issue, if you're able to give us help.

[kbuzard]

@abigailmondin I'm sorry I missed this yesterday. This is a pretty easy fix (I say this because sometimes strange things can still happen--it's basically because LaTeX is better at applying typesetting principles than most humans, and sometimes what we want is not in alignment with the typesetting principles): use the float package; a good explanation is in the answer with 809 votes on this stack exchange thread.

[sophiehaber]

12/18-19

I finished up the analysis, double checked all of the graphs, and did a thorough revision of all written parts on OverLeaf.

[ltsippel]

12/19/23

^^ me too changed graph and causal diagram sizes and took out variable numbers, Sophie Abigail and I have communicated within the last several days nonstop to make changes and get ready to submit

[abigailmondin]

12/19/23

@kbuzard We have finished and uploaded all of the necessary documents to the "DIOP Final Submission & Package" folder on the main page of the repo.

[ltsippel]

12/19/23

@kbuzard We submitted everything into a folder under code called "DIOP Final Submission & Packages" and the plan for final submission is under discussions in our repo!

[kbuzard]

@ltsippel I found it! I had just a minute to glance at it to make sure I could find it. Two notes:

• It would be better to have the README on the front page of the repo--you have it in the sub-folder, but how would someone landing on the repo front page know where to look?
• Where are all your files for the graphs, tables, etc? I don't see them in the folder. When I go to compile the .tex file, those will all be missing (or it might just error out altogether--I can't remember).

[abigailmondin]

• Where are all your files for the graphs, tables, etc?

@kbuzard I uploaded a sub folder within the final submission folder which contains the .tex file as well as the files for the graphs and tables. So, when you go to compile the .tex file it should work fine. I also added the README to the main page of the repo, it had been there before so I'm not sure what happened but it's there now.

[kbuzard]

@abigailmondin It compiles on my machine! Great job! And I can see the README on the main page. Since the tex file that needs to be used to compile the report is in the Final Report from Overleaf folder, I'd suggest removing the one in DIOP Final Submission & Packages, and then fixing the link in the READMEs and taking a sentence to explain the location/organization for reproducing the report.

[abigailmondin]

@kbuzard I think I've fixed everything based off of your previous suggestions.