kmprioliprof/mat_8452_final_project

Comparing World Quality of Life Measures: Nonparametric vs Parametric Approaches (final project for MAT 8452)

title	author	date	output
README	Katherine M. Prioli	December 18, 2018	html_document

Purpose

This repo contains the data, full source code, final report, and slides for my MAT 8452 final project. The objective of this project was to compare nonparametric methods to their parametric equivalents for key quality of life characteristics across countries.

Contents

The repo is organized as follows:

Content	Description
MAT_8790_alldata_2018-12-02.csv	Contains source dataset (file generated for MAT 8790 final project)
Final_Project.Rproj	.Rproj project container
Prioli_Final_Proj.Rmd	Notebook containing source code and report
Prioli_Final_Proj.pdf	Knitted notebook
Prioli_Final_Proj.pptx	Presentation slides

Related Analyses

This project used the dataset generated for the MAT 8790 final project, which was a k-means clustering analysis designed to understand how the United States compares to other nations for these QoL measures. Full code and the relevant Shiny app can be found here.

Data Sources

• The United Nations Development Programme. 2018. "Human Development Index." http://hdr.undp.org/en/data
• Social Progress Imperative. 2018. "Social Progress Index." https://www.socialprogress.org/?tab=4
• The World Bank. 2018. "Gross Domestic Product." https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ny.gdp.mktp.cd?view=map&year_high_desc=true
• World Happiness Report. 2018. "World Happiness Report." http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2018/
• World Economic Forum. 2018. "Gender Equality." http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2016/rankings/
• World Health Organization. 2018. "Probability of Dying Per 1000 Live Births." http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.182?lang=en
• World Health Organization. 2018. "Life Expectancy." http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.SDG2016LEXv?lang=en