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 - 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
  • 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