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choose variables #1

Open jalvord1 opened 6 years ago

jalvord1 commented 6 years ago

data is too large to upload to repository. I selected certain variables based on what I thought we wanted and filtered out those missing info for "trnsgnr" var, but we should go through and decide. Codebook is already uploaded and can be used to do this.

casswe368 commented 6 years ago

After the four main variables we chose for the model, we should also have more confounding variables to make sure our model is accurate. Here are some potential variables:

Generalhealth, physicalhealth, mentalhealth, poorhealth, healthplan, medicalcost, checkup, sexfactor, sexualorientation, doctorvisits, medicationcost, bmi

Variables to add to our data set: age, marital status, smoking

casswe368 commented 6 years ago

substance abuse

casswe368 commented 6 years ago

Age as a numeric variable is not available so we are going to add the age as a categorical variable with 6 levels

casswe368 commented 6 years ago

Alcohol consumption: combine the heavy drinker and binge drinker categories to create a binary variable for unhealthy drinking practices