431 Project A Proposal Template

Author

Your Name (or Names) Should Be Here

Published

2023-09-27

Read the Sample Proposal

You will get more out of this template if you work with it in combination with the 431 Project A Sample Proposal, which provides more detail for each section of the Proposal.

See the Project A Examples for more details and useful links.

Be certain to delete this note when you submit your final proposal, along with my other instructions.

1 R Packages

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the instructions for this section found in the R Packages section of the Proposal page.

Leave in the code below, augmenting it with additional packages as necessary, where indicated.

library(Hmisc)
library(janitor)
library(naniar)
library(sessioninfo)

# if you wish to add other packages, do so here

library(tidyverse)

knitr::opts_chunk$set(comment = NA)

2 Data Ingest

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the instructions for this section found in Data Task 1 on the Data page, as well as the Data Ingest section of the Proposal page.

A little bit of important code is included below.

data_url <- 
  "https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/sites/default/files/media/document/analytic_data2023_0.csv"

chr_2023_raw <- read_csv(data_url, skip = 1, guess_max = 4000,
                         show_col_types = FALSE)

3 State Selection

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the instructions for this section found in Data Task 2 on the Data page, as well as the State Selection section of the Proposal page.

4 Variable Selection

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the instructions for this section found in Data Task 3 on the Data page, as well as the Variable Selection section of the Proposal page.

5 Variable Cleaning and Renaming

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the instructions for this section found at the end of Data Task 3 on the Data page, as well as the Variable Cleaning and Renaming section of the Proposal page. .

6 Creating the Analysis 2 Predictor

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the instructions for this section found in Data Task 4 on the Data page, as well as the Creating the Analysis 2 Predictor section of the Proposal page. .

7 Adding 2018 Data for the Analysis 3 Outcome

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the instructions for this section found in Data Task 5 on the Data page, as well as the Adding 2018 Data for the Analysis 3 Outcome section of the Proposal page.

8 Arranging and Saving the Analytic Tibble

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the instructions for this section found in Data Task 6 on the Data page, as well as the Arranging and Saving the Analytic Tibble section of the Proposal page.

10 Numerical Summaries

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the relevant instructions for this section found on the Proposal page.

11 The Codebook

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the relevant instructions for this section found on the Proposal page.

Our add name of tibble tibble contains add code counties and add code variables.

Variable Original Role NA Distinct Definition
fipscode ID add code add code county’s FIPS code
state ID add code add code state postal abbreviation
county ID add code add code county name
add other selected variables - - - - -
county_ranked Check add code add code be sure that all values are 1

Missingness Check goes here.

Distinct Values Check goes here.

12 Research Questions

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Follow the relevant instructions for this section, and its subsections, found on the Proposal page.

12.1 Analysis 1 Research Question

12.2 Analysis 2 Research Question

12.3 Analysis 3 Research Question

13 Proposal Reflection

Delete these instructions when submitting your work

Here you will provide a paragraph describing the most challenging (or difficult) part of completing the work so far, and how you were able to overcome whatever it was that was most challenging.

Your discussion of the biggest challenge includes a paragraph (or more) written in English, with attention paid to grammar, syntax and spelling. It needs to be clear to us from reading your reflection what your biggest issue was, and how you tried to address it.

14 Session Information

session_info()
─ Session info ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value
 version  R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16 ucrt)
 os       Windows 11 x64 (build 22621)
 system   x86_64, mingw32
 ui       RTerm
 language (EN)
 collate  English_United States.utf8
 ctype    English_United States.utf8
 tz       America/New_York
 date     2023-09-28
 pandoc   3.1.1 @ C:/Program Files/RStudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/tools/ (via rmarkdown)

─ Packages ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 package     * version date (UTC) lib source
 backports     1.4.1   2021-12-13 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
 base64enc     0.1-3   2015-07-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
 bit           4.0.5   2022-11-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 bit64         4.0.5   2020-08-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 checkmate     2.2.0   2023-04-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 cli           3.6.1   2023-03-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 cluster       2.1.4   2022-08-22 [2] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 colorspace    2.1-0   2023-01-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 crayon        1.5.2   2022-09-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 curl          5.0.2   2023-08-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 data.table    1.14.8  2023-02-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 digest        0.6.33  2023-07-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 dplyr       * 1.1.2   2023-04-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 evaluate      0.21    2023-05-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 fansi         1.0.4   2023-01-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 fastmap       1.1.1   2023-02-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 forcats     * 1.0.0   2023-01-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 foreign       0.8-84  2022-12-06 [2] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 Formula       1.2-5   2023-02-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
 generics      0.1.3   2022-07-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 ggplot2     * 3.4.3   2023-08-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 glue          1.6.2   2022-02-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 gridExtra     2.3     2017-09-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 gtable        0.3.4   2023-08-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 Hmisc       * 5.1-0   2023-05-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 hms           1.1.3   2023-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 htmlTable     2.4.1   2022-07-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 htmltools     0.5.6   2023-08-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 htmlwidgets   1.6.2   2023-03-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 janitor     * 2.2.0   2023-02-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 jsonlite      1.8.7   2023-06-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 knitr         1.44    2023-09-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 lifecycle     1.0.3   2022-10-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 lubridate   * 1.9.2   2023-02-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 magrittr      2.0.3   2022-03-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 munsell       0.5.0   2018-06-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 naniar      * 1.0.0   2023-02-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 nnet          7.3-19  2023-05-03 [2] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 pillar        1.9.0   2023-03-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 pkgconfig     2.0.3   2019-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 purrr       * 1.0.2   2023-08-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 R6            2.5.1   2021-08-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 readr       * 2.1.4   2023-02-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 rlang         1.1.1   2023-04-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 rmarkdown     2.25    2023-09-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 rpart         4.1.19  2022-10-21 [2] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 rstudioapi    0.15.0  2023-07-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 scales        1.2.1   2022-08-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 sessioninfo * 1.2.2   2021-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 snakecase     0.11.1  2023-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 stringi       1.7.12  2023-01-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
 stringr     * 1.5.0   2022-12-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 tibble      * 3.2.1   2023-03-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 tidyr       * 1.3.0   2023-01-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 tidyselect    1.2.0   2022-10-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 tidyverse   * 2.0.0   2023-02-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 timechange    0.2.0   2023-01-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 tzdb          0.4.0   2023-05-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 utf8          1.2.3   2023-01-31 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 vctrs         0.6.3   2023-06-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 visdat        0.6.0   2023-02-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 vroom         1.6.3   2023-04-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 withr         2.5.1   2023-09-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 xfun          0.40    2023-08-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
 yaml          2.3.7   2023-01-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)

 [1] C:/Users/thoma/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3
 [2] C:/Program Files/R/R-4.3.1/library

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────