PhD Student Resources
Student Resources
Research at TAMU
- Southwest Rural Health Research Center
- Population Informatics Lab
- Center for Community Health and Aging
- Agribusiness, Food, and Consumer Economics Research Center (AFCERC)
- A&M Rural and Community Health Institute (ARCHI)
Data & Infrastructure Resources
- Texas Research Data Center ‒ a collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau
- Texas ViDaL (Virtual Data Library)
- Texas Health Data
- S. Census Data
- Social Explorer ‒ free institutional account
- CDC WONDER
- Area Health Resource Files
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
Readily Available Public-Use Datasets
- National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Professional Organizations
- AcademyHealth
- Academy of Management ‒ Health Care Management Division
- American Economic Association
- American Society of Health Economists
- American Medical Informatics Association
- American Public Health Association
- Association for Public Policy and Management
- International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
Methods Resources
- Statistics - https://www3.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats2/
- Econometrics by Bruce Hansen - https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~bhansen/econometrics/
- Causal Inference Mixtape - http://scunning.com/mixtape.html
- Econometrics - https://donskerclass.github.io/EconometricsII.html
- Panel Data Analysis - http://people.stern.nyu.edu/wgreene/Econometrics/PanelDataNotes.htm
- AI, Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, & Machine Learning https://www.kdnuggets.com/
Statistical Software Tools
- UCLA Statistical Consulting, https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/other/dae/
- Stata, http://www.cpc.unc.edu/research/tools/data_analysis/statatutorial; https://www.stata.com/features/
- SAS, https://support.sas.com/en/documentation.html
- ArcGIS, https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/; https://www.esri.com/en-us/home
- MATLAB, https://ideas.repec.org/p/tcd/tcduee/tep0110.html
- R, https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/statistics/lab_resources/RCommands.html
Writing Support
- Texas A&M University Writing Center, https://writingcenter.tamu.edu
- Texas A&M University Medical Sciences Library, https://msl.library.tamu.edu
- Purdue OWL, https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html - guide for proper citations
- Systematic Literature Reviews, https://guides.temple.edu/systematicreviews/SRTools
- Resources for International Students, http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/Students/Writing-Speaking-Guides
- Citation managers, https://www.zotero.org/; https://endnote.com; https://www.mendeley.com/; https://refworks.proquest.com/
Writing Guides
- Chicago Guides
- Elements of Style (Strunk & White)
- How to Write a Better Thesis
- Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
- How to Write a Lot
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Miscellaneous
- Hello PhD ‒ A podcast for scientists and the people who love them
- ProFellow ‒ Find Professional and Academic Fellowships
- Personal Finance for PhDs