PhD Student Resources

Student Resources

• PhD Handbook

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
• Econometrics by Bruce Hansen
• Causal Inference Mixtape
• Econometrics
• Panel Data Analysis
• AI, Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, & Machine Learning

Statistical Software Tools

• UCLA Statistical Consulting
• Stata: Tools and Resources | Carolina Population Center, Stata features
• SAS
• ArcGIS: ArcMap Resources for ArcGIS Desktop, GIS Software for Mapping and Spatial Analytics
• MATLAB
• R: Common R commands used in Data Analysis and Statistical Inference

Writing Support

• Texas A&M University Writing Center
• Texas A&M University Medical Sciences Library
• Purdue OWL - guide for proper citations
• Systematic Literature Reviews
• Resources for International Students
• Citation managers: Zotero, EndNote , Mendeley, RefWorks

Writing Guides

• Chicago Guides
  • The Chicago Manual of Style
  • Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis
  • Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers
  • Manual for Writers of Papers, Theses and Dissertations
  • Writing for Social Scientists
  • Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks
• 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