Creating a Comprehensive Profile for Individual Research Volunteers During Cold Weather Field Studies

Abstract

Processing of experimental data from disparate sources can be tedious and challenging when the experiment(s) produce a complex set of variables, data at different time intervals, contain repeated measures within subjects, and generate varying numbers of volunteer data at given time points. It is also important to understand and include historical and contextual information. This report provides a step-by-step methodology for creating a coherent database from two cold weather field studies. The method created includes three broad steps: (1) organization of the file hierarchy; (2) creation of subject profiles; and (3) data analysis, and their associated subroutines. This complete method should accelerate the creation of coherent analyzable databases and improve the quantitative conclusions drawn from the data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 11, 2020
Accession Number
AD1110086

Entities

People

  • Adam W Potter
  • David P. Looney
  • Diana P. Sanford
  • Sai Vangala
  • Stephen P. Mullen
  • Wendy Sullivan-kwantes
  • Xiaojiang Xu

Organizations

  • DRDC Toronto
  • United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Body Regions
  • Cecum
  • Cold War
  • Critical Temperature
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Data Set
  • Data Visualization
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Data
  • Directories
  • Experimental Data
  • Frostbite
  • Hierarchies
  • Injury Prevention
  • Metadata
  • Military Research
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Standards
  • Surveys
  • Template Patterns
  • Time Intervals
  • Training
  • Volunteers

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development