Starter folder

Overview

This repo features a study on the effects of heart disease and diabetes on mortality rates in Alberta using a Poisson model and a negative binomial model from 2016-2021. The data was collected from the Alberta Government and can be accessed from this link: https://open.alberta.ca/opendata/leading-causes-of-death

The study was accomplished partly with code taken from Telling Stories with Data (Alexander, 2023). The analysis was conducted through Rstudio using "R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31)

File Structure

The repo is structured as:

• data/raw_data contains the raw data as obtained from the Alberta Government.
• data/analysis_data contains the cleaned dataset that was constructed.
• paper.qmd contains the fitted models.
• other contains relevant literature, details about LLM chat interactions, and sketches.
• paper contains the files used to generate the paper, including the Quarto document and reference bibliography file, as well as the PDF of the paper.
• scripts contains the R scripts used to simulate, download and clean data.

Statement on LLM usage

Aspects of the code were written with the help of the auto-complete tool, Chat-GPT4. Several errors were fixed with the help of ChatGPT-4 and the entire chat history is available in other/llm/usage.txt.