PH 772-102: Epidemiologic Research IICOURSE PROJECT

You are required to demonstrate knowledge of PSPPin biostatistics by using data from NHEFS dataset. You are expected to examine the effect of schooling on years of smoking, controlling forage, race, sex.

Specifically, you should do the following:

1. Provide a title for your project.

2. Provide an introduction, including the research problem

3. State both your research question and the associated null and alternative hypotheses.

4. Include five peer-reviewed articles relevant to your reseach question/hypothesis

5. Run frequency distributions for all the variables in your analysis, and interpret their relevant summary statistics.

6. Use an appropriate statistical model to test the effect of the primary independent variable on the dependent variable, controlling for the other independent variables.

7. Interpret the findings and draw your conclusion.