Publications by Corey Sparks, PhD

Tidycensus basic setup and use

10.02.2020

This example will show you how to setup the tidycensus package in R citation(package = "tidycensus") ## ## To cite package 'tidycensus' in publications use: ## ## Kyle Walker (2020). tidycensus: Load US Census Boundary and Attribute ## Data as 'tidyverse' and 'sf'-Ready Data Frames. R package version ## 0.9.5. https://CRAN.R-project.org/p...

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DEM 7283 - Example 2 - Logit and Probit Models

10.02.2020

Categorical outcomes In the vast majority of situations in your work as demographers, your outcome will either be of a qualitative nature or non-normally distributed, especially if you work with individual level survey data. When we speak of qualitative outcomes, we generally are concerned with the observation of: A particular behavior (marriage...

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DEM 7093 Lab 1 exercise

06.02.2020

Get a Census developer API Key Obtain one at http://api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html Save your API key to your working directory use tidycensus::census_api_key(key = "yourkeyhere", install = T) one time to install your key for use in tidycensus library(tidycensus) library(tidyverse) library(sf) library(ggplot2) v15_Profile <- load_variables(...

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DEM 7283 - Example 1 - Survey Statistics using BRFSS data

03.02.2020

What is a survey? A systematic method for gathering information from a sample of entities for the purposes of constructing quantitative descriptors of the attributes of the larger population of which the entities are members Questions when identifying a survey data source: What is the target population? What is the sampling frame how do we kno...

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DEM 7223 - Event History Analysis - Example of Multi-state event history analysis

03.12.2019

This example will illustrate how to fit a multistate hazard model using the multinomial logit model. The outcome for the example is whether a family experiences a transition between poverty states between waves 1 and 5 of the data. The data from the ECLS-K. #Load required libraries library(survival) library(car) ## Loading required package: car...

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DEM 5093/7093 Lab 2 using R - Map projections and transformations

13.02.2020

This lab complements the exercise using Qgis for today Here, we use tidycensus to read some tract data, learn its projection information, transform it to a new coordinate system and measure some distance between features. library(tidycensus) library(sf) ## Linking to GEOS 3.6.1, GDAL 2.2.3, PROJ 4.9.3 library(dplyr) ## ## Attaching package: 'd...

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DEM 7283 - Example 2 - Logit and Probit Models

17.02.2020

Categorical outcomes In the vast majority of situations in your work as demographers, your outcome will either be of a qualitative nature or non-normally distributed, especially if you work with individual level survey data. When we speak of qualitative outcomes, we generally are concerned with the observation of: A particular behavior (marriage...

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DEM 7283 - Logistic Regression - Other Topics

24.02.2020

In this example, we continue the discussion of the logistic regression model from last week. This week we examine model nesting and stratification. We also look at using the logistic regression model for a binary classification model, commonly used in machine learning. #load libraries library(car) ## Loading required package: carData library(star...

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DEM 7093 More fun with vector analysis

05.03.2020

In this example I will use QGIS geoprocessing scripts through the RQGIS library in R. I will use data from the 2005 Peru Demographic and Health Survey, where I construct Voronoi polygons from the primary sampling unit locations and generate estimates of educational attainment for women. library(sf) ## Linking to GEOS 3.6.1, GDAL 2.2.3, PROJ 4.9.3...

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DEM 7283 Count data regression for survey and aggregate data

30.03.2020

This example will cover the use of R functions for fitting count data models to complex survey data and to aggregate data at the county level. Specifically, we focus on the Poisson and Negative Binomial models to individual level survey data as well as for aggregate data. For this example I am using 2016 CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Sy...

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