Find Jobs
Hire Freelancers

Help with SAS - Non-parametric bootstrap to estimate the 'coefficient of variation' of a dataset

£20-250 GBP

Closed
Posted over 6 years ago

£20-250 GBP

Paid on delivery
Below is the outline of what I need to do for a mock coursework assignment at University. There are a few more notes to help if you accept the assignment plus a dataset. This is the scenario: Whilst working on a foot ulcer trial application as a medical statistician, a colleague asks you to provide assistance in designing a surgical trial in colorectal cancer. A surgeon has approached your department for help with an application for a trial looking at changes in patient weight before and after a surgical procedure. In the consultancy session, the discussion turned to some datasets from a trial of surgical techniques for colorectal cancer that you have previously worked on, so this data could help inform the design of your colleague’s trial. However, the discussion concluded that the key parameter is the COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION (CV) of the patients’ Body Mass Index (BMI). To complicate matters, your colleague needs you to provide the CV for your data, but also a plausible range of values that the CV could take. The CV is defined as the standard deviation divided by the mean. An expression for the distribution of a CV is not straightforward. While SAS can provide a standard error and confidence interval for the mean of observations, a variance or standard error for the CV is not available by default. In situations where you need to know the distribution of a parameter, and cannot easily obtain this analytically, you can use computationally-intensive methods to simulate a possible distribution based on the underlying data. One such approach is the non-parametric bootstrap using PROC SURVEYSELECT. A call to PROC SURVEYSELECT would look something like this: proc surveyselect data=<DATASET> out=<DATASET> <sampsize=...> <method=...> <other options> run; Task You need to implement a non-parametric bootstrap to estimate the CV of BMI for patients in your workshop dataset. You need to choose the PROC SURVEYSELECT options to ensure that this procedure correctly performs the non-parametric bootstrap to analyse the results in each sample. You must: 1) Estimate the Coefficient of Variation of the Body Mass Index of the patients in the baseline dataset. You will need to first derive the BMI for the patients in your baseline dataset; 2) Using SAS, implement the non-parametric bootstrap using PROC SURVEYSELECT as described above to draw a suitable number of bootstrap samples from the baseline dataset; 3) Include one or more PROC steps to summarise the results of your simulations, so that your colleague can investigate the impact if the true value is in a plausible range of values. 4) Provide your SAS code and the full SAS Output to show what was produced.  1-2 sides of A4 incl. comments - each step must have a comment explaining what you have done  Submit your SAS code as a SAS code file, or paste the code into Word. You should also save your plain text output OR your HTML output and include that  Use size 10pt Courier typeface, and single line spacing, as the text appears in SAS.  Readable code is important as well as my being able to reproduce your output from the code provided.
Project ID: 15313844

About the project

8 proposals
Remote project
Active 6 yrs ago

Looking to make some money?

Benefits of bidding on Freelancer

Set your budget and timeframe
Get paid for your work
Outline your proposal
It's free to sign up and bid on jobs
8 freelancers are bidding on average £194 GBP for this job
User Avatar
I did tons of such projects, have 2 SAS certificates. Relevant Skills and Experience Recently I successfully finished more than 80 projects related to almost all branches of Statistics and Data Science on this and other freelance websites. I will show you if you are interested. Proposed Milestones £20 GBP - 1st milestone £40 GBP - 2nd milestone £30 GBP - 3rd milestone
£90 GBP in 3 days
5.0 (13 reviews)
4.1
4.1
User Avatar
I'm an Engineer in Statistics and Applied Economics, i've got many skills and expertise that will allow me achieving perfectly all the projects and assignments because my priority is your satisfaction Relevant Skills and Experience I am a master of softwares like SPSS, SAS, STATA, R, Eviews, Minitab, MS excel. Proposed Milestones £300 GBP - work required
£300 GBP in 10 days
5.0 (4 reviews)
3.3
3.3
User Avatar
I am working as a statistical programmer (SAS) for a clinical research organization (quintiles IMS). so working with medical data is my day today life hope you will reach out to me. Relevant Skills and Experience I am Bsc graduate in statistic and a expert SAS programmer Proposed Milestones £150 GBP - Whole project Additional Services Offered £15 GBP - explain the process Can i know more details
£150 GBP in 5 days
5.0 (1 review)
3.1
3.1
User Avatar
The task will be done in SAS with required codes within stipulated time and proper commenting and tabulation of the output. Relevant Skills and Experience SAS, Statistics, Bootstrapping. Proposed Milestones £20 GBP - Initial plan discussion after project award and acceptance. £100 GBP - Final delivery of the SAS code.
£120 GBP in 2 days
5.0 (1 review)
1.1
1.1
User Avatar
I have 7 years of experience in Statistical Analysis project. I would like to take this discussion forward and serve you with better quality results. Relevant Skills and Experience SAS/SPSS Proposed Milestones £166 GBP - END Results What is the deadline to this project.
£166 GBP in 3 days
0.0 (0 reviews)
0.0
0.0
User Avatar
GBP 150 for 3 days Relevant Skills and Experience Bootstrap, SAS Proposed Milestones £150 GBP - complete work
£150 GBP in 3 days
0.0 (0 reviews)
0.0
0.0
User Avatar
It's something I've done before. You'll have it ready by Friday. Relevant Skills and Experience I'm an expert in SAS base, SAS Sql, SAS macros Proposed Milestones £222 GBP - All the requierements will be ready by Friday Just send the data as soon as you´re ready.
£222 GBP in 2 days
0.0 (0 reviews)
0.0
0.0

About the client

Flag of UNITED KINGDOM
United Kingdom
0.0
0
Payment method verified
Member since Oct 3, 2017

Client Verification

Thanks! We’ve emailed you a link to claim your free credit.
Something went wrong while sending your email. Please try again.
Registered Users Total Jobs Posted
Freelancer ® is a registered Trademark of Freelancer Technology Pty Limited (ACN 142 189 759)
Copyright © 2024 Freelancer Technology Pty Limited (ACN 142 189 759)
Loading preview
Permission granted for Geolocation.
Your login session has expired and you have been logged out. Please log in again.