opensafely-actions / cohort-report

Cohort-report generates a report for each variable in an input file
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Why should a researcher use cohort-report? #43

Open iaindillingham opened 3 years ago

iaindillingham commented 3 years ago

It's reasonably clear what cohort-report does...

Cohort Report outputs graphs of variables in a study input file.

...although it also outputs tables 🤔 Anyhow, why should a researcher use it? For example, @HelenCEBM suggests:

"This action will describe the cohort you have produced, field-by-field, and allow you to sense check that the data looks as expected. For example: the mix of age groups and sexes is reasonable; your outcomes of interest have the level of incidence you were expecting; and none of the fields have returned all missing values (which may indicate a problem with a codelist). This helps you to pick up issues that were not apparent in the dummy data when you tested your query locally."

Although note that cohort-report doesn't do all of these things, yet 🙂