This page provides R code for downloading data from two national health surveys and for carrying out the example analyses in the book. Two datasets analyzed in the book are also provided.

R code for downloading data from national health surveys:

• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

R code for example analyses:

• Chapter 1: Statistics and health data
• Chapter 2: Key statistical concepts
• Chapter 3: Regression analysis
• Chapter 4: Binary and categorical outcomes
• Chapter 5: Count outcomes
• Chapter 6: Health care costs
• Chapter 7: Bootstrap methods
• Chapter 8: Causal inference
• Chapter 9: Survey data analysis
• Chapter 10: Prediction

Datasets used in Chapter 5:

• Outpatient visits in the Basic Health Plan of Washington State
• Prostate cancer mortality from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program