Being organized is key to success in any field. As with lab (“bench”) science, or clinical medicine it helps to be organized when you peform data analysis.

For this class, I suggest that your organize your work in a logical manner. To help you, I have created a ZIP archive available in the Downloads folder on Blackboard. As a bonus, in the data folder you will have a bunch of datasets from the book already downloaded for your convenience.

If you unzip the folder, it will look something like this.

  • data: all datasets; each dataset in a separate subfolder
  • lectures: lecture materials and notes organized by week
  • hw: homeworks by week
  • exams: two midterms and the final
  • stata: Stata code files
  • docs: other documents
  • misc: miscellaneous items not fitting in above

If you examine the folder structure, it will look something like this:

  bioe720
  ├── data
  │   ├── anderson-influenza
  │   ├── bos-touwen-chronic
  │   ├── cornelis-adl
  │   ├── durand-stroke
  │   ├── dysangco-hiv-cvd
  │   ├── lin-chemotherapy
  │   ├── neidert-body-composition
  │   ├── pereira-icu
  │   ├── rabago-gait
  │   ├── README
  │   ├── shah-phtn
  │   ├── strom-depression
  │   └── van-lindert-csf
  ├── lectures
  │   ├── week01
  │   ├── week02
  │   ├── week03
  │   ├── week04
  │   ├── week05
  │   ├── week06
  │   ├── week07
  │   ├── week08
  │   ├── week09
  │   ├── week10
  │   ├── week11
  │   ├── week12
  │   ├── week13
  │   ├── week14
  │   └── week15
  ├── hw
  │   ├── hw01
  │   ├── hw02
  │   ├── hw03
  │   ├── hw04
  │   ├── hw05
  │   ├── hw06
  │   ├── hw07
  │   ├── hw08
  │   ├── hw09
  │   ├── hw10
  │   ├── hw11
  │   └── hw12
  ├── exams
  │   ├── final
  │   ├── midterm1
  │   └── midterm2
  ├── docs
  ├── stata
  └── misc