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1. The hypothesis is to predict cancer mortality rates in the
United States counties.
Questions asked when I sent the proposal
Can you be a little more specific about the variables? What will
be your outcome/s? Is this a variable in the dataset or is it a
variable that you need to calculate from other variables in the
dataset?. When you talk about counties, do you mean you want
to compare if the mortality rate is different between counties?
Do you have several observations per county?. If you only have
one per county you can’t do statistical inference using counties.
I see a lot of continuous variables in the dataset, it seems to me
that it would be easy to run regression models where you can
have a mortality rate as the outcome and then one or more of the
other variables as predictors.