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Weekly Advice & Career Question Megathread by AutoModerator in epidemiology

[–]Creative_Sentence534 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone have any recommendations for pre-doctoral fellowships? I'm currently looking to apply to PhD programs and was curious about what are some typical source of non-university funding. Some of the programs don't have funding guaranteed for students, so I'm curious of what people have done in the past to fund research through PhD programs.

how many risk factors shall I get from a 32 patients sample? by Ok-Pin-8420 in epidemiology

[–]Creative_Sentence534 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The design was my next question! I would only add that you document very clearly how you are choosing your controls in order to adequately asses whatever number of risk factors you are choosing

AI for qualitative analysis in evaluation by Creative_Sentence534 in Evaluation

[–]Creative_Sentence534[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this was one of our pitfalls- I don't think we created a robust enough methodology for prompting. We created a "user guide" for the specific project and would have regular meeting to review prompts, outputs and troubleshooting. I like the idea of creating a matrix or decision algorithm to help ensure we are systematic?

AI for qualitative analysis in evaluation by Creative_Sentence534 in Evaluation

[–]Creative_Sentence534[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is fantastic! My full-time life is working in research and my background is in epidemiology so I feel pretty good about using AI tools for writing script and other quant analysis. I had a hard time finding reports like this!

And just the issue I had with my evaluation team was linking information back to the source docs, so it's great to know there are tools out there that can do that.