Chanmi Lee
Fall 2023
The objective of the final project is to answer the question ‘what is the association between obesity and social determinants of health in Pennsylvania?’
(1) CDC PLACES data
The CDC Place data provides the obesity prevalence among adults older than 18, presented as percentage at the census tract level.
(2) Census Bureau ACS (American Community Survey)
- Table DP05: different racial/ethnic groups of Non-Hispanic Black, Non-Hispanic White, Asian, Hispanics will be examined along with gender
- Table S1501: Various education attainment levels will be studied with levels of less than high school, high school graduate, some college, and bachelor’s or higher
- Table S1701: Poverty rate
- Descriptive statistics
- Visualization
- Correlation
- Regression analysis
- Regression Diagnostics
Obesity vs Female
Obesity vs Hispanic
Obesity vs Less Education
Obesity vs Poverty Rate
Normality
Normal Q-Q Plot
Residual vs Fitted
Homoscedasticity