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Predicting Binary Outcomes: Application to Health
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Learn the differences between logit and linear probability models, and apply them to real-world data by estimating a model that predicts whether an individual has high blood pressure.
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Assessing Health Beliefs and Behaviors
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Insights from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
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Teenage Driving and Mortality
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While there is little doubt that driving increases mortality risk, estimating the magnitude of this causal effect is not straightforward.
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Data Wrangling using R: Application to Netflix Data
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Teaches students about the basics of ETL (extracting, transforming, and loading data) or data wrangling (e.g., loading a dataframe, subsetting data, etc.) in R.
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Learning to Predict: The Case of Smartwatch Adoption
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This case is used to teach students to use Machine Learning and Predictive Analysis to predict the smartwatch adoption by consumers.
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Does Workplace Wellness Work?
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One widely touted solution to the rise of chronic disease is increased use of workplace wellness programs, but do they actually work?
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